A word that is similar in meaning to another word.
What is a synonym?
100
The methods used by an author to tell about the characters and their personalities.
What is characterization?
100
a set of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
An educated guess that uses both information in the reading passage and your own thinking
What is an inference?
100
This bias method involves the author trying to persuade the reader to do, think or buy something because it is popular or because "everyone is doing it."
What is bandwagon?
200
The antonym of the word "day."
What is "night"?
200
Conversation between people in a story or the speech of characters in a drama.
What is dialogue?
200
a type of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared without using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
The author's central topic or thought about a paragraph or passage
What is a main idea?
200
This bias method involves the author attempting to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea (for instance, the celebrity endorsement).
What is testimonial?
300
One or two or more words pronounced and spelled the same but having different meanings.
What is homonym?
300
The moment in which the conflict of the plot is most tense; it will trigger the resolution
What is the climax?
300
The use of the same consonant sounds in words that are near each other. It is the sound, not the letter that is important.
What is alliteration?
300
A piece of information about something that is presented as true and accurate
What is a fact?
300
Attempts to persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the reader's emotions instead of to logic or reasons
What is an emotional appeal?
400
Word Parts added to the beginning or end of a word that changes the meaning of the word in some way.
What are affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
400
The overall major idea of a story from which lessons may be gotten
What is theme?
400
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
400
A statement that suggests a judgment that may not be shared by all
What is an opinion?
400
A "Blanket Statement" that encompasses what appears to be a great idea without providing details to support it; for example, "I'm for freedom!"
What is a glittering generality?
500
A word to which prefixes and suffixes can be added to form different or derivative words.
What is a root word?
500
A device in literature in which an object stands for an idea.
What is symbolism?
500
Figurative language that shows inanimate objects taking on the same characteristics and traits as a human.
What is personification?
500
A pattern of organization of nonfiction that involves telling about the earliest events first and then telling of the later events
What is sequence?
500
A bias method used by writer that tells only the good side of the story