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This is literature based on real events and real people.
What is non-fiction?
100
This is an appeal that uses facts, figures, and common sense to appeal to an audience.
What is logical appeal?
100
This is the style format used in English Language Arts.
What is MLA format?
100
This is the group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
This is someone's life story written by someone else.
What is a biography?
200
This is language authors use to appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
200
This is a rhetorical strategy.
logos, pathos, or ethos
200
This is the line spacing used throughout an MLA formatted paper/document.
What is double-spacing?
200
"The moon smiled down at me" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
200
This is a person's life story written by the person themselves.
What is an autobiography?
300
This can be anything in literature that has a meaning in itself but stands for something more such as death, fragility, or innocence.
What is a symbol/symbolism?
300
This is the most used persuasive appeal. HINT: Those animal cruelty commercials.
What is emotional appeal?
300
This is a type of source which is from the time period under study. For example, a first person account; a letter; a newspaper from the time period.
What is a primary source?
300
This is the repetition of one initial sound in more than one word.
What is alliteration?
300
This is a type of autobiography that focuses on a specific period in a person's life such as childhood, or time spent in war, etc...
What is a memoir?
400
This is the beginning of the plot and introduces characters, establishes setting, and reveals the problem or conflict.
What is exposition?
400
This is also known as a rebuttal statement.
What is counter argument?
400
This is a source that comments on a primary source. Examples include encyclopedias, journal articles, websites.
What is a secondary source?
400
This is a type of poetry which has no set meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
400
This is the meaning of the prefix sub.
What is under?
500
This is one example of conflict in which a character is in conflict with another character in a story.
What is person vs. person?
500
This is when a speaker uses their own credibility to persuade.
What is appeal of authority or ethical appeal?
500
This is usually the first thing listed in an MLA citation on a works cited page.
What is author's last name?
500
This is a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme of abab,cdcd,efef,gg.
What is a sonnet?
500
The term used to look back in a piece of writing or film
What is flashback?