What am I?
Person, place, thing, concept.
What is a NOUN?
Who is HOMER?
Writing that is based on facts.
What is nonfiction?
Find me in a word and I mean "study of."
What is -OLOGY?
This literary tool is overstatement to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
Modifiers for NOUNS and PRONOUNS
What are ADJECTIVES?
I wrote many great American novels including East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, both of which are set neat my home in Salinas, CA.
Who is John Steinbeck?
Writing that springs from the author's imagination
What is fiction?
Find me in a word and I mean "hear."
What is AUD?
This literary tool depends on reason or logic to make a point.
What is LOGOS?
ACTION or STATE of BEING
What are verbs?
I wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories, as well as a bunch of special sonnets during the late 1500s and early 1600s.
Who is William Shakespeare?
I'm a form of writing that is very attentive to word choice, punctuation, and imagery, but I do not have to follow traditional rules of grammar.
What is poetry?
Find me in a word and I mean "large."
What is MEGA?
This is a question that's asked without any intention of drawing a real response from the audience. It simply emphasizes a point.
What is a RHETORICAL question?
Modifiers for adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.
What are adverbs?
Who is Wes Moore?
I'm a hybrid genre that didn't exist until Of Mice and Men.
What is a "play-novelette"?
Find me in a word and I mean "the product of" or "the result of."
What is -MENT?
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase to emphasize a point.
What is ANAPHORA?
The noun or group of nouns preplaced by a pronoun
What are antecedents?
I wrote four famous and highly patriotic sonnets at the start of WWI and I signed up to fight, but I never actually served.
Who was Rupert Brooke?
I'm a specific form of poem with an octave and a sestet.
What is an Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet?
Find me in a word and I mean "war".
What is BELL?
When a speaker emphasizes something by appearing to pass by in.
What is PARALEPSIS?