This is the author's attitude toward his or her subject, audience, or character.
What is tone?
100
The logical presentation of reasoning and supporting evidence that proves a statement.
What is argument?
100
This is the explanation that goes with a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
100
This is a word that modifies a verb, an adverb, or an adjective.
What is an adverb?
200
Water represents life, rose represents love, fire represents power, the American flag represents the USA. In other words, a concrete item represents an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
200
A form of repetition where the poet repeats the first letter of a word for effect.
What is alliteration?
200
Whoever is reading, listening, or watching a story, text, or drama.
What is the audience?
200
This is the notation of a source used for a paper.
What is a citation?
200
This is a word to which affixes may be added to create a related word. (EX: Happy in "unhappy")
What is a base word?
300
A combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection if like. Can be direct as well as indirect.
What is characterization?
300
Language that goes beyond the dictionary meaning of words. It is imaginative and suggestive rather than literal.
What is figurative language?
300
This is the arrangement of events in the order which they occur.
What is chronological order?
300
This is a method of relating two or more objects in a piece of work.
What is compare and contrast?
300
When an ad appeals to a person's feelings. Ex. "Buy life insurance - for the people who matter in your life."
What is an appeal to emotion or an emotional argument?
400
A central idea, message, or insight of a literary work. This is usually about life or society.
What is a theme?
400
This is a statement that can be proved to be true.
What is a fact?
400
This is information that supports a generalization or claim.
What is evidence?
400
This is the use of language to appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
A group of words that has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
500
This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar.
What is an allusion?
500
This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with prior knowledge to make it make sense.
What is an inference?
500
This type of language has longer sentences and a greater variety of words than everyday speech. Slang, contractions, and jargon are avoided.
What is formal language?
500
This is a restatement of a written wok in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work.
What is a paraphrase?
500
This is a punctuation mark that is used between clauses of a compound sentence when a conjunction is not used, before conjunctive adverbs that join independent clauses, and in a series when the series already contains commas.