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100
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
A comparison that does not use the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
100
A conversation between two characters in a drama.
What is dialogue?
100
A long speech by one character in a drama to other characters.
What is monologue?
100
Words used to move smoothly from one sentence, idea, or paragraph to another.
What is transition word?
200
Giving a non-human object human-like qualities. The chair weeped when the large man sat down.
What is personification?
200
The emotions created in a reader when reading a story.
What is mood?
200
The triumphs, failures, and events that a character faces that raises of the tension of a story as it approaches the climax.
What is rising action?
200
Directions given to actors and directors on how to set up scenes and move people around the stage.
What is stage directions?
200
The group of people you are writing to.
What is audience?
300
The attitude an author has towards what they are writing.
What is tone?
300
The unique history and personality of a person in a story.
What is character?
300
The "beat" created by spoken words in poetry. Often compared to drums.
What is rhythm?
300
The repeating of words again and again for effect.
What is repetition?
300

This type of text structure uses key words such as As a result, if...then, therefore, and furthermore.

What is Cause and Effect?

400
An object that stands for more than what it actually is.
What is symbolism?
400

The repeating of consonant sounds that do not appear at the beginning of words.

What is consonance?

400

A hematologist specializes in...

What is a blood doctor called?

400

Which sentence from the speech best supports the inference that Douglass does not need to argue against slavery because it is clearly immoral?

A) "At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

B) "There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him."

C) "I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply."

D) "There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour."

Answer is B) "There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him."

400
A type of text organization in which you arrange ideas according to time or order.
What is chronological/sequential order?
500

This type of text structure uses First, Second, Next, After, as transition words. 

What is Chronological Order?

500
A type of irony in which the reader knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
500

The bird could not fly because he fractured his appendage.

What is a wing to a bird also called?

500

A joke based on the different meanings of one word.

Example: How did the picture end up in jail?

It was framed!

What is pun?

500
Giving your opinion on a piece of writing based on it's content or the author's ability. Different from a paraphrase or summary.
What is critique?