GAP/Lit Terms
Literary Terms
Rhetorical Appeals
Run-on Sentences
Fragments
100
What "GAP" stands for.
What is genre, audience, purpose?
100
The author's attitude toward the subject of a text.
What is tone?
100
The 3 rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
100
Identify the type of run-on sentence: I'm so excited that it's Friday I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow.
What is a fused sentence?
100
A word group that is lacking a subject, verb, and/or a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
200
When 2 unlike things are compared using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
200
The life lesson or moral that is taught through a text.
What is theme?
200
When an author/speaker uses logic (statistics, facts, examples).
What is logos?
200
Identify the type of run-on sentence: I found my wedding dress online, it was much cheaper than those in the fancy boutique.
What is a comma splice?
200
Identify which part of the following sentences are fragments: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn't working out too well.
What is "Because the one I have now isn't working out too well"?
300
When 2 unlike things are compared without the use of "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
300
The way the audience feels as the result of reading a text.
What is mood?
300
When an author/speaker uses emotion (people's desires, needs, and feelings).
What is pathos?
300
Identify the type of run-on sentence: Although I'm on the soccer team, I hate running I think I might quit.
What is a fused sentence?
300
Identify which part of the following sentences are fragments: Wishing he’d brought his umbrella. John waited for the bus all morning in the rain last Tuesday.
What is "wishing he'd brought his umbrella"?
400
When human-like traits are given to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
400
When an author's language helps the audience see, hear, taste, touch, and/or smell what is happening in the text.
What is imagery/sensory details?
400
When an author/speaker uses the credibility of a source (someone who has experience and/or is knowledgeable about a subject).
What is ethos?
400
Identify the type of run-on sentence: When we went to Italy last summer, I fell in love with Rome, I can't wait to go back.
What is a comma splice?
400
Identify which part of the following sentences are fragments: After I went to the movies with my best friends Jane and Sarah. We went shopping for new shoes.
What is "After I went to the movies with my best friends Jane and Sarah"?
500
When reading any text, the 3 main purposes can be defined as _________, _________, and _________.
What are inform/explain, narrate, and persuade?
500
An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Rhetorical appeals are used in order to _______.
What is persuade/convince an audience?
500
Identify the type of run-on sentence Because I'm dating an older guy, my parents don't approve of him it's so frustrating.
What is a fused sentence?
500
Identify which part of the following sentences are fragments: Jose asked Laura out on a date. To which she replied, "Um...I have a boyfriend."
What is "To which she replied, 'Um...I have a boyfriend.'"?