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100

Granny Smith, Macintosh, and Red Delicious

What is an apple?

100

How many paragraphs should your character analysis essay have?

What is five?

100

A comparison of two different things or ideas using words such as "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

The country were the story "The Necklace" takes place

What is France?

100

The words or phrases a writer uses that appeal to the senses.

What is imagery?

200

A story that has a second meaning beneath the surface.

What is an allegory?

200

The first sentence of your essay that grabs your readers' attention and makes them eager to see what you will have to say next.

What is a hook? 

200

Any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself

What is a symbol?

200

The author of "Ransom of Red Chief"

Who is O. Henry?

200
When a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite; sarcasm is one form of this.

What is verbal irony?

300

"The twisting trout twinkled below" is an example of this literary term.

What is alliteration?

300

The foundation of your essay; located at the very end of the introduction.

What is a thesis statement?

300

The central message of a literary work

What is theme?

300

The murderer of John Wright

Who is Minnie Wright?

300

When a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect; often, the twist is oddly appropriate

What is situational irony?

400

A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing; IYKYK

What is an allusion?

400

The first sentence of a body paragraph. 

What is a topic sentennce?

400

The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience

What is tone?

400

The survivor of the battle between General Zaroff and Sanger Rainsford.

Who is Rainsford?

400

When a character or speaker says or does something that has a different meaning from what he or she thinks it means, though the audience and other characters understand the full implications

What is dramatic irony?

500

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of sentences or phrases within a sentence. An example would be "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . ."

What is anaphora?

500

The formatting style used at PEP and in most College English classes. 

What is MLA?

500

The art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking

What is rhetoric?

500

French for Mrs. 

What is Madame?

500

An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal; for example, "to drive someone up the wall". 

What is an idiom?