Nonfiction
Writing/Grammar
Plot/Fiction Text Features
Literary Devices
Lit/fiction features and devices continued
100
Used to define specific words in an informational text
What is the glossary?
100
Used to describe a verb or action
What is an adverb?
100
a noun or adjective used to describe the behavior/personality feature of a character.
What is character trait?
100
Words/phrases used to create vivid sensory experiences for the reader
What is imagery?
200
This is used to identify synonyms or antonyms of a specific word
What is a thesaurus?
200
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning
What is a homophone?
200
The opponent or enemy of the main character in a story; often a secondary character and "foil" to the main character
What is the antagonist?
200
The author's attitude towards what he/she is writing about--could be friendly, angry, sad, etc.
What is tone?
200
An extreme exaggeration/overstatement
What is a hyperbole?
300
A list of sources that an author uses or cites when writing a text
What is the bibliography?
300
A clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence, contains at least a subject and a verb
What is a main clause?
300
These two devices may be used to show the reader what happened before and/or after (outside) the story
What are foreshadowing and flashback?
300
The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds usually in literature or poetry;
What is assonance?
300
The quality/state of an event being both coincidental and contradictory in a humorous/ridiculous/extremely improbable way
What is irony?
400
An author's particular perspective based on his/her feelings, ideas, experiences, etc.; may affect the trustworthiness of his/her writing
What is a bias?
400
An original model of which all other similar, persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype. Similar to "stereotype"
What is an archetype?
400
(Two words) implied meaning; dictionary definition
What are connotation and denotation?
400
A play on words in which homophones or similar words with different meanings are deliberately confused/used together to make a joke
What is a pun?
500
A published collection of poems or short stories
What is an anthology?
500
The form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action
What is active voice?
500
A counter-intuative conclusion or outcome; something that seems ironic or almost impossible
What is a paradox?
500
A common phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says (i.e. it's raining cats and dogs)
What is an idoiom?
500
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used intentionally (usually sarcastically) for effect
What is an oxymoron?
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