In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different.
What is compare and contrast?
100
a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
100
slam! boom! pow! splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a great exaggeration of a sound in a story or poem
What is a hyperbole?
200
Her became cold and black.
What is a metaphor?
200
In this part of an essay, you place the topic sentences in three paragraphs.
What is the body paragraphs?
200
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is adjective?
200
the sun smiled down upon us.
What is personification?
300
a group of lines forming the basic recurring verse in a poem
What is a stanza?
300
An elephant's opinion carries a lot of weight.
What is a pun?
300
the main idea of a paper that has three main points
What is thesis statement or introductory paragraph?
300
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
What is a pronoun?
300
It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
What is a hyperbole?
400
the subject or topic of a talk or a piece writing or the moral of the story.
What is a theme?
400
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers, how many Pickled Peppers did Peter Piper Pick?
What is alliteration?
400
important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.
What is the main idea?
400
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
What is an adverb?
400
This won't hurt a bit.
What is an understatement?
500
an expression having a special meaning.
What is an idiom?
500
cut to the chase
What is an idiom?
500
a claim made to rebut a previous claim.
What is a counterclaim?
500
an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption.
an exclamation, especially as a part of speech, e.g., ah! or dear me!.