The sequence of the events in a story including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is plot?
100
The type of textual organization that using time to organize its ideas.
What is chronological?
100
A group of words that function as a single part of speech
What is a phrase?
100
The three aspects of a properly introduction.
What is lead, bridge, and thesis?
100
"She sure has a chip on her shoulder" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
200
The universal message of a short story, novel, poem or play.
What is theme?
200
The most common reasons why an author writes which is also a tasty dessert.
What is to persuade, entertain, and inform?
200
There are two types of clauses. One begins with subordinate conjunctions (or relative pronouns) while the other could be a sentence on its own.
What are subordinate and independent clauses?
200
Defining a word by its associated emotions.
What is connotation?
200
"The willows whispered into the wind" utilizes two types of figurative language.
What are alliteration and personification?
300
The narrative perspective in which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
After reading a text, one would use only the main idea to create this form of the text.
What is a summary?
300
While walking down the street, the poster caught my eye.
This is an example of what type of grammatical mistake?
What is a misplaced modifier?
300
The proper formatting for a body paragraph contains these three sections.
What is claim, evidence, and interpretation?
300
"My love is a red, red, rose" uses two types of figurative language as well. Name them.
What is symbol and metaphor?
400
The historical context of a work of fiction as well as the time and place in which the story takes place.
What is setting?
400
When the similarities and differences between ideas are highlighted, an author may be using this type of textual organization.
What is compare and contrast?
400
A sentence containing at least two independent clauses and one subordinate clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
400
The strategy that makes use of the words and phrases around a difficult word in order to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
400
The old stairs creaked and cracked as they explored the old mansion.
Name the type of figurative language used.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The narrative perspective in which the narrator knows all of the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient narration?
500
This type of textual organization is utilized when an author tells a story in order to make or advance their argument.
What is narration?
500
The types of sentence errors in which
1. One is missing either a subject or verb
2. The sentence is poorly punctuated or too long
What is fragment and run-on sentences?
500
The three different "word parts" that are often derived from other languages such as Greek or Latin.
One is found at the beginning of words, another at the end...
What are prefixes, roots, and suffixes?
500
"She sure has a chip on her shoulder" is an example of this type of figurative language.