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100
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
The action of the story.
What is plot?
100
title, subheading, sidebar and bulleted list
What are text features?
100
The lake is a mirror reflecting the bright sunlight in the early morning.
What is a metaphor?
100

What are the three rhetorical appeals used to persuade an audience?

ethos, pathos, and logos

200
Has no rhyme scheme or stanzas
What is free verse or non traditional?
200
The most exciting or "turning point" moment in a story.
What is climax?
200

Events are arranged in the order in which they happen. This type of organizational pattern is used in short stories, biographies, and autobiographies.

What is chronological order or sequence organizational pattern?

200
The wind wispered through the the young leaves of the pecan tree.
What is personification?
200

A politician uses statistics and facts to support their argument. What rhetorical appeal is this?

logos

300
Tells a story of a mythic or national hero and is usually long, serious in tone and doesn't rhyme.
What is an Epic?
300
The overall message of a story that reveals something about the human experience.
What is theme?
300
Include conclusions, generalizations and predictions.
What is an inference?
300
His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, and a long beakish nose, so that it looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindly neck to tell which way the wind blew.
What is a simile?
300

What rhetorical device is used when the opposite of what is expected happens or is said

irony

400
Because I do not hope to turn again; Because I do not hope; Because I do not hope to turn; Is an example of?
What is repetition?
400
Often includes important details such as the main characters, the setting and main events in a literary piece and main ideas and supporting details in an expositry piece.
What is a summary?
400
This pattern shows causal relationships between events, ideas, and trends. Some transition words used in this pattern are "because, since, as a result of."
What is cause and effect?
400
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism".
What is alliteration?
400

What rhetorical device is used when a question is asked for effect, not meant to be answered

rhetorical question

500
The rhythm produced by a poem's words,lines, and stanzas.
What is meter?
500
person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature
What is conflict?
500

In a speech arguing for school uniforms, the author states that uniforms “improve discipline, reduce distractions, and make all students equal”—but provides no data or examples to support these claims. What makes the author’s argument less effective?

the lack of sufficient evidence and reasoning to support the claims

500
Uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
500

What rhetorical device is being used in the sentence, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?

antithesis