Literary Terms
Writing Skills
Grammar
Figurative Language
Wild Card
100
The universal idea or message the author wants you to understand.
What is theme?
100
The identification of the following statement in a CEA paragraph: In Night, Elie Wiesel uses the "eyes" motif to reinforce the theme that an individual's experiences can change him/her forever.
What is a claim?
100
The punctuation used to separate items in a series
What is a comma
100
She is as graceful as a butterfly.
What is a simile?
100
The sentence that is the same as an assert statement or an argument statement.
What is a claim?
200
A recurring word, phrase, object, idea, or symbol that reinforces the theme
What is a motif?
200
The identification of the following statement in a CEA paragraph: Here, the eyes motif shows that Moshe no longer believes in his spirituality as much, and he realizes that his warning will go unheeded by the Jews. He has changed forever because he has given up hope of changing the Jews' mind, and knows that his survivor story will not make any difference.
What is analysis.
200
The punctuation used to separate two closely related sentences
What is a colon (or semicolon)
200
He is a soft heart.
What is a metaphor?
200
This is the literary term that means word choice.
What is diction?
300
The overall feeling of a book, poem, song or passage
What is the mood?
300
The identification of the following statement in a CEA paragraph: One example of the "eyes" motif in Night is when Wiesel writes, "Moshe eyes had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes."
What is evidence?
300
The word that a writer should use instead of "you" in a formal essay.
What is the reader?
300
When discussing strategy, people often use examples of these kinds of figurative language: "playing your cards right" and "taking the bull by the horns"
What are figures of speech?
300
the punctuation that is used to separate two closely related sentences, especially when used before a conjunctive adverb.
What is a semicolon?
400
First, second, and third: all show the perspective of the story.
What is point of view?
400
Lines copied directly from the text that help to support the claim, and appear in quotes in the CEA paragraph.
What is text evidence?
400
The more common name for an independent clause
What is a sentence?
400
The figurative language described below: The turtles marched up the beach to lay eggs in the sand.
What is personification?
400
The part of a CEA paragraph that includes text copied from a source as proof.
What is the evidence part?
500
A logical conclusion made based on evidence in the text
What is an inference?
500
This is listed at the end of examples of evidence, in a CEA paragraph, to indicate to the reader that the words are not the writer's own.
What is the author's last name and page number?
500
Words such as however, consequently, therefore, and furthermore, that occur after the semicolon, in a set of joined sentences.
What are conjunctive adverbs?
500
The three types of figurative language (in order) used below: The flowers gazed on in the fields, as the butterflies hovered like protective mothers, and frolicking children breathed in the first day of spring.
What is personification, simile, and metaphor.
500
Ways in which the reader get to know a character are known as this literary term.
What is characterization?
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