This story was a memoir that detailed the humble beginnings of a famous African American poet.
What is Mrs. Flowers?
100
The dictionary and literary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
100
Descriptive words and phrases that evoke a mental picture
Who is imagery?
200
Careless cars cutting corners create confusion .
What is alliteration?
200
A group of words that has both a subject and a verb, but can not stand alone as a sentence
What is a dependent clause?
200
A poem about a young boy and his first love.
What is Oranges?
200
The audience or reader knows details that the character does not know
What is dramatic irony?
200
The process by which a writer reveals the personality of a character, it can be direct or indirect
Characterization is revealed through
What is characterization?
300
Life is a precious possession, death is a loss
What is a metaphor?
300
A sentence that contains both a independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
300
A short story about the coming of age of a young school girl.
What is Eleven?
300
The choice or use of words in writing or speech
What is diction?
300
The author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
400
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”
What is assonance?
400
An incomplete sentence
What is a fragment?
400
The substitution of a frank expression that might offend or otherwise suggest something unpleasant to the audience
What is an euphemism?
400
A person says or writes one thing and means another
Who is verbal irony?
500
Bob said the test was difficult, but I thought it was a piece of cake.""
What is an idiom?
500
A noun that is formed by adding -ing to a verb
What is a gerund?
500
A short story that chronicles the turmoils of a high school freshman
What is Spotlight?
500
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
What is syntax?
500
A device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself without looking at the audience and thinking he or she is alone