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parralel
parallel
What word describes a word that sounds like the noise it makes?
Onomatopoeia
What is the technique where something is repeated?
Repetition
Lets eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma!
Who was the author of Parvana?
Deborah Ellis
heirarcy
hierarchy
Which part of the sentence is the independent and the dependent clause:
After the party, we went to McDonalds.
After the party- dependent/subordinate
We went to McDonalds- independent
What technique is used to evoke feeling from the reader?
Emotive language
Meg laid in the hammock all day.
Meg lay in the hammock all day.
Name five kinds of genre.
Fantasy, horror, western, mystery, science-fiction , war, romance, comedy.
aceptible
acceptable
What type of sentence is this:
I went to walk my dog this morning but he did not want to go.
Compound sentence
What technique includes a question that doesn't require an answer?
Rhetorical Question
My brother can neither walk or crawl.
My brother can neither walk nor crawl.
When writing an essay, what does GST stand for when writing an introduction
General Statement
Specific Statement
Thesis statement
absance
absence
Compound sentences can be joined by specific conjunctions that can be remembered using FANBOYS.
What does FANBOYS stand for?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What technique do we use when we are giving animal characteristics to a human or object?
zoomorphism
My friends dog max, had its yearly vaccination today.
My friend's dog, Max, had its yearly vaccination today.
These lines are from Maya Angelou's poem. What poetic technique is used in these lines:
1. But still, like dust, I rise
2. You may shoot me with your words
3.Welling and swelling I bear in the tide
1. Simile, anaphora
2. Metaphor
3. Rhyme, assonance, metaphor
concientious
conscientious
On your whiteboard, write an example sentence that uses an appositive
What is the technique when a poem line has no punctuation at the end of the line
enjambment
There were horses, cows, sheep, pigs on the farm.
There were horses, cows, sheep and pigs on the farm.
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