What do you mean?
You need a thesaurus to understand this informal type of definition.
What is a synonym?
Each time you tell a person about your day, you are using this method.
What is narration?
Choosing the right word for the right time or ocassion.
What is diction?
To explain why something happens.
What is cause and effect?
Comparing two subjects to show their similarities and differences.
A dictionary will help you find the answer to this type of definition.
What is a formal definition?
This is where an event takes place.
What is a setting?
To compare something nonhuman to something human.
What is personification?
In this causal scenario, event A may be present for event B, but A does not necessarily cause event B.
What is contributing cause?
Use this pattern when what you're comparing is simple, broad and obvious.
What is block pattern?
Students write this definition in several hundred words
What is an extended definition?
You may use first person ______________ , like "I" and "me" in your essays when you are describing yourself.
What is point-of-view?
When a person says, I got brand new wheels to refer to his car, he is using
What is synecdoche?
A ________________ works just like a series of dominoes: one effect becomes the cause to another effect, and so on...
What is a causal chain?
The pattern is used for long, complex comparisons
What is the alternating pattern?
A rhetorical mode used to clarify or analyze a word for better understanding
What is definition?
protagonist, antagonist, foil, tragic hero, a person in a novel.
What is character?
Just as jumbo shrimp" is a contradiction, this word tends to confuse you until you think about it.
What is a paradox?
In this causal event, you need A for B.
What is a necessary cause?
To show the differences between two events, subjects, or ideas.
What is contrast?
A term that defines a word by what it is NOT
What is an antonym?
A conversation between two people
What is dialogue?
A form of irony, sarcasm.
What is an understatement?
A fallacy that states one event leads to another event, as in the example, "I crossed a black cat and got in a wreck."
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy?
A type of extended comparison that is used to teach a lesson; one that compares two unlike subjects. (Not in your book, not a simile
What is an analogy.