Syntax Sins
Readings Rehashed
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Figuratively Speaking
Style
100
I found a mistake in a sentence, it was something called a comma splice.
What is a runon?
100
Bruni's tone in "Invention of Outrage".
What is sarcastic?
100
He don't like it.
What is doesn't?
100
A comparison between two different things using the word ‘like’ or ‘as.’
What is a simile?
100
An author’s choice of words.
What is diction?
200
Running faster and faster the girl in the stilettos.
What is a fragment?
200
Who was the real loser in "34 Local"?
Who is the narrator?
200
The book, including all the chapters in the first section, are boring.
What is . . . is?
200
Device Theodore Roosevelt usedin his letter to his son in which heexplained that sports is a “bad master.”
What is a metaphor?
200
The structure or ways that authors construct sentences.
What is syntax?
300
When the blew, the windows rattle.
What is inconsistent tense?
300
When Romeo shows up during Friar Lawrence's introductory speech about the presence of good and evil in one person.
What is foreshadowing?
300
All of the books, including yours, is in that box.
What is . . . are?
300
The device Alice Walker uses atthe end of “The Flowers” when she says, “the summer was over.”
What is symbolism?
300
Two major ways to categorize a writer’s style.
What is informal and formal?
400
When the parent hung up the phone, they immediately sent to their son's room and confronted him.
What is pronoun and noun mismatch?
400
The major literary device used in "The Ex-Basketball Player"
What is personification?
400
The team captain, as well as his players, are anxious.
What is . . . is?
400
Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
What is personification?
400
A sentence with one independentclause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is complex sentence?
500
We ran to the corner, down the street, and then we went back to the school.
What is not parallel?
500
The device at play when Romeo sees Juliet, believes she's dead, and drinks the poison, when we know she's not dead.
What is dramatic irony?
500
The boy or his friends runs every day.
What is . . .run?
500
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds of words.
What is alliteration?
500
A reader might analyze this in order to determine an author’s attitude or tone.
What is diction?
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