This narrator is a character, usually the main character, in the story.
What is a first-person narrator?
100
This is usually at the beginning AND end of a persuasive essay.
What is a claim or position or thesis statement?
100
up and down
What are antonyms?
100
"I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti."
What is simile?
100
A section of a poem, often mistakenly called a paragraph by students.
What is a stanza?
200
In this part of a story, background information on the characters and setting may be given.
What is the exposition?
200
This supports a writer's claim. It can include personal anecdotes, eye-witness accounts, and statistics.
What is evidence?
200
colorful and drab
What are antonyms?
200
"You are an ant, while I'm the lion."
What is metaphor?
200
This may be the poet or someone else who "talks" to the readers of the poem.
What is a speaker?
300
This part of the story contains the highest point of action.
What is the climax?
300
This persuasive technique tries to make people worried or afraid.
What is appeal to fear?
300
tattle-tale and snitch
What are synonyms?
300
"I fought a million rappers in an afternoon in June."
What is hyperbole?
300
This type of poem has no rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
400
Some examples include internal and external, man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. nature.
What is confict?
400
If your essay is against school uniforms, and you include information about how uniforms make students equal, this would be your ____________________.
What is a counter-argument or opposition?
400
friendly and amiable
What are synonyms?
400
The other figurative language besides simile in the following: "Coming from the deep black like the Loch Ness,
now bring apocalypse like the Heart of Darkness."
What is allusion?
400
Poetry often uses these techniques, which use words and phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
500
This narrator is outside the story but knows the thoughts and motivations of ALL characters.
What is a third-person omniscient narrator?
500
When you anticipate what people who don't agree with you would say, then state why their viewpoint is wrong, this is the ______________________.
What is a rebuttal?
500
loquacious and taciturn
What are antonymns?
500
"Alright, the sky misses the sun at night."
What is personification?
500
This type of meter has ten syllables and sounds like this: da DUH da DUH da DUH da DUH da DUH.