The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing.
What is prose?
100
The study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence.
What is grammar?
100
The act or process of one that writes: the formation of letters to express words and ideas.
What is writing?
100
Writing in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
What is poetry?
100
A form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.
What is figure of speech?
200
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
200
A word used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
200
Poetry that has no regular rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.
What is nonfiction?
300
A word used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
What is a noun?
300
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
A word used to express action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
400
The voice talking in a poem.
What is speaker?
500
A prose account that is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
500
A verb form ending in - ing that is used as a noun.
What is a gerund?
500
A poem that mourns that of something that is important to the writer.