A clause that can stand on its own
EX:I drove a bus.
What is an independent clause?
100
Appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
100
Exaggeration of terms
EX: It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets!
What is a Hyperbole?
100
The main events of a story taken place.
What is the plot?
100
The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem
What is rhyme scheme
200
A sentence made of two independent clauses
EX: I am a doctor, my wife is a lawyer.
What is a compound sentence?
200
these persuasive statements appeal to a person's desire to be like everyone else
EX: No one's wearing BELTS anymore...why are you catdog?
-Winslow,Catdog
What is bandwagon?
200
Terms that give you a picture in your mind
EX: It was a dark a stormy night...
What is imagery?
200
How the author wants YOU to feel
What is the tone?
200
The paragraphs of a poem
What are the stanzas?
300
A noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns placed next to another word or phrase to identify or rename it.
EX: Gus, Eric's black and white cat, slowly crept up behind the kittens.
What is an appositive?
300
Appeal based on logic or reasoning
What is logos?
300
A metaphor developed at a great length occuring frequently in or throughout work
EX:Sara says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire...
What is an extended metaphor?
300
How the author feels
What is mood?
300
A poem that has no rhyme scheme
What is a free verse poem?
400
A sentence that is made of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
EX:The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error.
What is a complex sentence?
400
Appeal to ethics,status, or character
What is Ethos?
400
A statement that is widely held as true
EX: an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
What is Aphorism?
400
a serious disagreement or argument in the story the may bring dismay among the characters
What is conflict?
400
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
500
A sentence made up of two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
EX:Although I like to go camping, I haven't had the time to go lately, and I haven't found anyone to go with.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
A mistake in reasoning
What is a logical fallacy?
500
Description that involves one or more of the five senses -- touch, sight, taste, smell and sound.
EX:O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou,Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
What is sensory images?
500
The part of a story that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
What is the falling action
500
A poem that has two or more rhyming words that occur within the same line, in the middle of 2 different lines, or ends with a word that rhymes with a word in the next line.
EX:While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.