Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Vocabulary
Grammar
100

This figurative technique is when an author uses images to help the reader imagine what is happening.

What is imagery?

100

This word refers to the author's main argument.

What is a claim/thesis?

100

This is where a theme can usually be inferred in a poem (beginning, middle, or end)

What is the end?

100

Listlessly.

What is acting in an unenthusiastic manner?

100

This refers to the author's word choice.

What is diction?

200

This figurative technique is when an author uses symbols to represent a deeper meaning.

What is symbolism?

200

These two paragraphs in a nonfiction text name the argument.

What are the introduction and conclusion paragraphs?

200

This figurative language is an extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

200

Amelioration.

What is improvement?

200

This refers to words that have the same definition.

What is denotation?

300

This narrative technique is used when an author shows how someone like Grete changes from a kind to a cold sister throughout the story.

What is character development?

300

This paragraph argues the opposite side of the author's argument to demonstrate a fair and balanced understanding of the topic.

What is a counterclaim/counterargument/antithesis?

300

This style of verse does not follow any set pattern of rhymes or meter.

What is free verse?

300

Travail.

What is painful and laborious effort?

300

Which word has the most negative connotation?
Scent, fragrance, smell, odor

What is odor?

400

This genre of writing contains a story with a hidden meaning, often connected to real life.

What is an allegory?

400

This quality of writing refers to evidence that is objective and verifiably true.

What is credibility?

400

This type of line in a poem does not end with a grammatical break but continues the thought in the next line.

What is an enjambed line?

400

Entitled.

What is to feel deserving of special privilege?

400

These words, like has, may, and will, precede a main verb to provide information about the verb's tense.

What is an auxiliary (helping) verb?

500

This subgenre of Modernist literature includes elements of ambiguity, fantastic or dreamlike events, and themes of alienation.

What is Absurdism?

500

This type of writing summarizes a text and evaluates whether the writing is strong.

What is a critical summary?

500

This style of poem is usually very structured, containing 14 lines, a rhyme scheme, and an internal meter of iambic pentameter.

What is a (Shakespearean) sonnet?

500

Pariah.

What is an outcast?

500

Identify the verb phrase in the sentence below:
He had moved to the chest of drawers without effort.

What is "had moved"?