Literary Terms
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Grammar and Usage
100
A term that describes taking the words of an original text and rewriting them into your own language.
What is paraphrasing or summarizing?
100
A character in the story who speaks directly to us and uses I
What is first person narrator?
100
This period of American literature reflects a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream.
What is Modernism?
100
The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is plagarism?
100
Original sources of information; anything from firsthand documents, such as poems, diaries, court records, documents, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, etc.
What are primary sources?
200
A writer's attitude toward his subject, communicated through diction, choice of details, or direct statements of his or her position. It reflects the feelings of the writer.
What is tone?
200
The author uses descriptive or figurative language to create word pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
200
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired" Nick says in The Great Gatsby. This statement represents the loss of the American Dream which is a theme common to the ______ period in American Literature.
What is the Jazz Age or Modernism?
200
Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing activity.
What is prewriting?
200
Identify the error: The origins of most sports is unknown.
What is subject/verb agreement?
300
The Realist technique of giving specific details of a geographic region and its people.
What is local color?
300
The outcome is the opposite of what is expected in the narrative.
What is irony?
300
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
What is the Puritan and Colonial period?
300
This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
300
Edit this sentence: Eating, drinking, and to stay up late at night were among her pleasures.
What is Eating, drinking, and staying up late at night were among her pleasures.
400
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related. An examples is seen in the Declaration of Independence: "A government for the people, by the people, and of the people."
What is parallel structure?
400
"Small yellow creatures bob like dandelions in the field," is an example of the use of what literary device.
What is simile?
400
Works of this period included political statements, pamphlets, letters, and the like. Major writers during this time period, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, were concerned with government and society.
What is Age of Reason or Enlightenment?
400
Choose the best order for these details in a paragraph. A. Because of its use of a variety of livestock, cheese-making has been of primary economic importance for hundreds of years in the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland. B. Cheese-making probably originated soon after men first obtained milk from wild or domesticated animals. C. Hundreds of varieties of cheese are made from the nilk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, mares, llamas, and yaks. D. Many years ago, humans discovered that cheese could be made from the curd formed when milk coagulates.
What is D,B,C,A?
400
Identify the type of error in this sentence: David was known for belching; and telling inappropriate jokes in public.
What is punctuation?
500
In "Waldlen," Thoreau writes, "I am not as wise as the day I was born." This is an example of a rhetorical strategy know as a ____,which seems to contradict itself but suggests an important truth.
What is paradox?
500
A lengthy comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is (extended) metaphor?
500
These authors relied on imagination and inspiration to produce their works. Nature was their primary source of inspiration since it was the ideal.
What is Romanticism?
500
A. Because of itsuse of a variety of livestock, cheese-making has been of primary economic importance for hundreds of years in the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland. B. Cheese-making probably originated soon after men first obtained milk from wild or domesticated animals. C. Hundreds of varieties of cheese are made from the nilk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, mares, llamas, and yaks. D. Many years ago, humans discovered that cheese could be made from the curd formed when milk coagulates. From these details, what is the best thesis? A. In modern factories, cheese is mass-produced according to standardized recipes and techniques. B. Cheese is a highly nutritious food that can be used in a variety of ways. C. Cheese is a milk product that has a long history, a wide distribution, and considerable economic importance.
What is C?
500
Identify the type of error: Having finished the assignment, the TV was turned on.
What is a dangling modifier?
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