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Conventions/Grammar
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A technique used by writers such as Patrick Henry, suggestion that their arguments make the answer obvious or self-evident. These questions do not require a reply.
What is Rhetorical Question
100
The author uses descriptive or figurative language to create word pictures for the reader.
What is Imagery.
100
This period of American literature reflects a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream.
What is Modernism.
100
The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is Plagiarism.
100
What is wrong with the following: Wow, said Ashley, "This lollipop is amazing"!
"Wow," said Ashley, "This lollipop is amazing!"
200
A writer's attitude toward his subject, communicated through diction, choice of details, or direct statements of his or her position. It reflects the feelings of the writer.
What is Tone.
200
The audience or reader knows information that the characters do not know.
What is Dramatic Irony.
200
"He tried to poke them together again, but in spite of the tenseness of the effort, his shivering got away with him and the twigs were hopelessly scattered. Each twig gushed a puff of smoke and went out." In this passage from the _____ period, the writer views life as a losing battle against an uncaring universe.
What is Naturalism.
200
Brainstorming, diagramming your thoughts with a web or other visual aid, and outlining those ideas for a writing activity.
What is Pre-Writing.
200
Choose the correct usage in this sentence: Is it (there/their/they're) turn to read?
What is their?
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The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related. An example is seen in Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" as he uses the gerund phrases: I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work.
What is Parallelism (Parallel Structure)
300
"Small yellow creatures bob like dandelions in the field," is an example of the use of what literary device.
What is Simile.
300
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
What is Puritan / Colonial Literature.
300
This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is Thesis Statement.
300
Correct the following sentence: Where is your/you're mother?
Your
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In "Wadlen," Thoreau writes, "I am not as wise as the day I was born." This is an example of a rhetorical strategy know as a ____,which seems to contradict itself but suggests an important truth.
What is Paradox
400
A lengthy comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is Extended Metaphor.
400
Works of this period included political statements, pamphlets, letters, and the like. Major writers during this time period, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, were concerned with government and society.
What is Revolutionary / Rationalism Literature.
400
This part of the writing process is for searching your writing for errors, both grammatical and typographical, before submitting your paper.
What is Proofreading.
400
We are worried about forgetting the presents for she and him.
him and her
500
What is the opposite of a hyperbole. It minimizes or lessens the importance of what is meant.
What is understatement
500
Phrases or expressions where the meaning does not correspond to the literal meaning of the words. (Example: You look like the cat that swallowed the canary)
What is idiom.
500
A new type of poetry characterized by common speech, exact words, precise, clear pictures.
What is Imagist Poetry / Imagism.
500
This type of source interprets and analyzes primary sources and are one or more steps removed from the event. This type of source may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.
What is Secondary Source.
500
This part of speech shows relationship between a noun and pronoun and some other word in the sentence.( examples include: on, around, underneath, between, above)
What is a Preposition.