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Figurative Language
Characters
Literary Elements
Personal Narratives
Grammar
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A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a SIMILE?
100
I enjoy hunting human beings!
Who is GENERAL ZAROFF?
100
THis is what you call the narrator in poetry.
What is a SPEAKER?
100
This is when a writer includes a brief "story" in the body paragraph of an essay, for the purpose of proving his/her point.
What is an ANECDOTE?
100
This punctuation can be used to indicate the title of short stories and poems.
What are QUOTATION MARKS.
200
When a writer gives human qualities to an inanimate object.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
I tried to steal a woman's purse and she ended up treating me like a real son.
Who is ROGER?
200
This the term for --a group of lines in poetry.
What is a STANZA?
200
This word means the same as "explain".
What is EXPOSITORY?
200
An INTERROGATIVE always ends with this type of punctuation.
What is a QUESTION MARK?
300
A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
What is a METAPHOR?
300
I wanted so desperately to be Phyllisia's friend.
Who is EDITH?
300
How an author feels about the subject he/she's writing about.
What is TONE?
300
The minimum number of sentences in a STAAR introduction.
What is TWO?
300
I enjoy swimming skating snorkeling and running. Which punctuation is missing?
What are COMMAS?
400
An exaggeration.
What is HYPERBOLE?
400
I fell in love with son of my family's worst enemy! We married and eventually died together.
Who is JULIET CAPULET?
400
The particular way in which an author writes.
What is STYLE?
400
This sentence has the job of leaving the reader with something to think about.
What is the APPEAL To The READER
400
Kimberly, my best friend, loves vegetables! What do you call the part of this sentences that is set off by commas?
What is an APPOSITIVE PHRASE?
500
When a writer writes using the exact sound that something makes.
What is ONOMATAPOEIA?
500
I was best friends with one of my high school's best basketball players and we eventually started dating.
Who is MTISHA?
500
When an author writes dialogue exactly the way a character speaks, in order to reflect where that character is from.
What is DIALECT?
500
The last sentence in the introduction.
What is a THESIS STATEMENT?
500
One of my jobs is to join two complete sentences together, without using a coordinating conjunction like: and, but, so.
What is a SEMI-COLON?