Literary Terms
Prefixes/suffixes/Roots
Vocabulary
voice
Grammar
100
what you can guess about the author's age, status, or preferences
What is an inference?
100
This root is also found in the word agony and means contest or struggle.
What is "agon"
100
A word that means changeable
What is VOLATILE?
100
Word choice in an author's writing...... (formal-informal)
What is Diction?
100
Restates the general meaning of what a person said. She asked whether I knew what my name means.
What is an indirect quote...... no quotation marks.....
200
means "contest" or "struggle"
What is agon as in protagonist?
200
troubloed or disturbed?
What is perturbed?
200
long sentences, short sentences, fragments
What is syntax?
200
It is dependent or subordinate on more information..... yesterday at the mall
What is a sentence fragment?
300
A writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is "tone"?
300
means "together"
What is syntax
300
to be credible or believable......
What is plausible?
300
Conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail.
What is tone?
300
a person exact words... "Whose is this?" Mrs. Price said.
What is a direct quote.... has quotation marks.......
400
A comparison of two different ideas or things and uses words such as "like or as". One thing is LIKE another thing..... like an onion or like a tree trunk......
What is a simile?
400
meas an "arrangement" or "order"
What is tax
400
The word or phrases that give details to a sensory experience..... That pizza is gooey, hot, and dripping with cheese.
What is imagery?
400
includes syntax, diction, imagery, inference, and tone
What is voice?
400
Stands independently by itself.....
What is a independent sentence.
500
a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageously exagerrated and can be used for serious or comic effect.... " a colloar and sleeves all streteched out like you could use it for a jump rope."
What is a HYPERBOLE?
500
means "first"
What is proto as in protagonist?
500
What does it mean to "Come of Age"
What is our "Essential Question"?
500
A writer's distinctive use of language.
What is voice
500
A sentence that has two or more indeopendent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. I was my parent's first joy, and in their joy, they gave me the name that would haunt me for the rest of my life, Immaculeta Uzoma Achlike.
What is a compound-complex sentence.
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