Power Verbs
Literary Terms
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Locate, list, lable, find examples.
What is identify?
100
The point of highest interest.
What is Climax?
100
An author wants to explain a problem and then offer one or more solutions.
What is problem and solution?
100
Series of events; plan of action.
What is plot?
100
What GPA stands for.
What is Grade Point Average?
200
Tell the details.
What is describe?
200
Author tells what took place before the opening of the story.
What is flashback?
200
To organize details in a paragraph showing how they are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
200
The main idea of the story; moral of the story.
What is theme?
200
What you receive after completing the 12th grade and passing the OGT.
What is a Diploma?
300
Describe, tell what, why, how, and justify your thinking.
What is explain?
300
Conclusions drawn from the hints given by the author.
What is inference?
300
Writer explains how one event leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
300
Giving nonhumand things human qualities or traits.
What is personification?
300
True or False: If you fail any subject of the OGT test you must take the entire test over.
What is False?
400
Boil down and restate.
What is summarize?
400
To expect one thing to happen, but something else happens instead.
What is irony?
400
To show a series of events in order.
What is chronological?
400
Repetition of the same or similar consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
400
An official report suplied by a school on the record of an individual student.
What is a transcript?
500
To derive as a conclusion from facts or premise.
What is infer?
500
Concrete words that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
500
In this type of paragraph, the author offers a main statement followed by supporting details.
What is main idea?
500
Dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
500
The charge or fee for instruction.
What is tuition?
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