This sentence is in this verb voice: "Mrs. Hurley loves to read."
What is the active voice?
100
This is the type of irony in which a person says the opposite of what s/he means.
What is verbal irony?
100
Anne Frank was sent to a concentration camp because she was this religion.
What is Judaism?
100
This is a literary device which can be defined as a concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end.
What is a fable?
100
Usually a main idea, often called a “thesis statement,” backed up with evidence that supports the idea.
What is a claim?
200
This sentence is in this verb mood: "Clean your room!"
What is the imperative verb mood?
200
This is the type of irony in which the audience knows more information than the character(s).
What is dramatic irony?
200
William Kamkwamba, author or The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, was from this country.
What is Malawi?
200
These are figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, allusions that go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the reader new insights.
What is figurative language?
200
This is the emotional appeal used to persuade an audience.
What is pathos?
300
The punctuation is used to indicate a pause, a break or an omission: "..."
What is an ellipsis?
300
If an English teacher were to misspell a word on a spelling test, it would be an example of this type of irony.
What is situational irony?
300
At the end of this story, Madame Forestier clasps her hands and tells Mathilde that the item she borrowed was actually not worth anything.
What is The Necklace?
300
This is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This is the trustworthy appeal used to persuade an audience.
What is ethos?
400
This verb mood is used in this sentence: "My mom requested that I unload the dishwasher when I get home."
What is the subjunctive mood?
400
This is an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is a parody?
400
In the radio play version of The Hitchhiker, Ronald Adams makes a phone call to his mother and finds out this information.
What is his mother's nervous breakdown (due to his death)?
400
This is, in written composition, an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
What is tone?
400
Vice President Gore mostly used this persuasive appeal in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 2007.
What is logos?
500
This type of language is used when a writer describes something very clearly for the reader.
What is precise language?
500
"Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes" video is a parody of this popular song from 2013.
What is "Blurred Lines"?
500
In Williams Carlos Williams's poem This Is Just To Say, what food was eaten from the icebox?
What are plums?
500
In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.
What is anaphora?
500
These are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. They can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim.