Literary Terms
The underlying message that the author wants a reader to understand.
What is the theme?
"Holding my breath, I dove" includes this phrase type.
What is a participial phrase?
This grammatical voice tends to make writing longer, more boring, and less concise.
What is passive voice?
This is used to connect ideas between paragraphs and sentences.
What are transitions?
Using too many conjunctions to combine complete sentences is an example of this sentence problem.
What are stringy sentences?
The atmosphere or feeling that an author is creating for the reader in any given scene.
What is mood?
"I'm good at holding my breath" includes this phrase type.
What is a gerund or prepositional phrase?
"Martha dropped out of school, she moved back home."
What is a run-on sentence?
Each body paragraph in an expository essay should start with this.
What is a topic sentence?
"Though the buzz-buzzing of the fly would have annoyed anyone else, Ma didn't feel the slightest animosity towards it" is an example of what type of characterization?
What is direct?
What this exemplifies: "Time devoured the years of man."
What is personification?
"Although she survived" is this type of clause.
What is a subordinate?
"Ate all of the Cheetos in the house."
What is a sentence fragment?
A correct citation: a. (p. 62), b. (Statham, p. 62), c. (Statham; 62), d. (62)
What is d?
Restating a passage in your own words while including most details is called this.
What is paraphrasing?
The author can tell us the thoughts of any character in this point of view.
What is third person omniscient?
"To fly, you must flap" includes this phrase type.
What is infinitive?
The misplaced modifier: "Family-owned for generations, I bought the store."
What is "Family-owned for generations"?
Using research to develop your paper's central idea is called "supporting the _______."
What is "thesis."
The number of lines in a sonnet.
What is 14?
What is iambic pentameter?
The grammatical voice of this sentence: "The bat's head will be bitten off."
What is passive voice?
"Johnny decided to make ice cream but not eating any of it."
What is parallel structure?
In expository writing, the author's ________ should be formal and engaged.
What is tone?
The type of irony in which a character says one thing but means the opposite.
What is verbal?