English 9
Grammar & Sentence Structure
Literary Terms & Analysis
Writing & Rhetoric
Vocabulary & Word Choice
100

Famous allegorical novel by William Golding.

What is Lord of the Flies?

100

A group of words with a subject and predicate that expresses a complete thought.

What is an independent clause?

100

The time and place in which a story takes place.

What is setting?

100

The sentence that clearly states the main idea or argument of an essay.

What is a thesis statement?

100

A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.

What is a synonym?

200

A reference to another piece of literature, historical event, art, or mythology.

What is allusion?

200

Two independent clauses joined by a comma but without a conjunction create this error.

What is a comma splice?

200

The main message or underlying meaning of a work.

What is theme?

200

This type of writing’s main purpose is to convince the reader of an opinion or claim.

What is persuasive or argumentative writing?

200

The emotional or cultural associations attached to a word beyond its dictionary meaning.

What is connotation?

300

The use of descriptive details that pertain to any of the five senses.

What is imagery?

300

This punctuation is used to connect two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.

What is a semicolon?

300

The perspective from which a story is told, where the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts of all characters.

What is third-person omniscient?

300

The use of facts, statistics, and expert quotes in an argument is an example of this rhetorical appeal

What is logos?

300

A word that means the opposite of another word.

What is an antonym?

400

This occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not know.

What is irony?

400

A sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses is this sentence type.

What is a complex sentence?

400

A statement that seems self-contradictory but may reveal a deeper truth.

What is a paradox?

400

Repeating the same grammatical structure in a series of phrases or sentences is called this.

What is parallelism?

400

A figure of speech where a part represents the whole, like “wheels” for “car.”

What is synecdoche?

500

The beginning part of a story that introduces characters and setting.

What is the exposition?

500

This type of pronoun introduces a subordinate clause and relates it to another word in the sentence (examples: who, which, that).

What is a relative pronoun?

500

The use of symbols to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

What is symbolism?

500

The art of using language effectively and persuasively is known as this.

What is rhetoric?

500

The deliberate use of a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.

What is verbal irony?