Sections of Your Resume
Resume Knowledge
Literary Devices
More Literary Devices
Vocabulary
100

This is the LAST section of your resume.

What is EDUCATION?

100

This information should not be included in your resume.

What is REFERENCES?

100

This is a warning or indication of a future event.

What is FORESHADOWING?

100

This is the emotion evoked by the author; the way readers are made to feel.

What is the MOOD?

100

This is the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

What is EXILE?

200

This is the FOURTH section of your resume.

What is EXPERIENCE?

200

This type of voice should be avoided in resume writing.

What is FIRST PERSON?

200

This is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is ALLITERATION?

200

This is the author's general attitude, or the way the author feels about the topic he/she is writing about.

What is the TONE?

200

This is to be distressed, troubled, afflicted, or grieved.

What is HARROWED?

300

This is the THIRD section of your resume.

What is SKILLS?

300

In the "Experience" section of your resume, paid experience should be __________ from unpaid experience.

What is SEPARATED?

Also acceptable: What is the paid experience comes BEFORE the unpaid experience?

300

This is a figure of speech in which a thing--an idea or an animal--is given human attributes.

What is PERSONIFICATION?

300

This is a comparison using the words "like" or "as."

What is a SIMILE?

300

This is to cause extreme physical or mental pain to; subject to extreme stress.

What is to WRACK?

400

This is the SECOND section of your resume.

What is OBJECTIVE?

400

When listing your experiences, list them in this order:

What is IN REVERSE ORDER or MOST RECENT FIRST?

400

This is a stylistic device that is a two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors.

What is a KENNING?

400

This is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract, like an idea or concept.

What is a METAPHOR?

400

This refers to mental sharpness or inventiveness; keen intelligence.

What is WIT?

500

This is the FIRST section of your resume.

What is HEADING?

500

When listing your education, this piece of information should be included FIRST.

What is the SCHOOL NAME?

500

This is an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.

What is a HYPERBOLE?

500

This is an expression used to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

What is an ALLUSION?

500

This is to deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

What is to INFER?