A figure of speech using like or as to compare to unlike things.
What is a simile?
100
The author's attitude towards the subject or audience.
What is tone?
100
President Truman hoped the atomic bombs dropped on Japan would bring a quick resolution to the war.
What does "resolution" most nearly mean?
An answer or solution.
100
"Plunk! Whiz! Pop!"
What is onomatopoeia?
100
To inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
200
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
What is personification?
200
The use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Harry looks indignant when he doesn't get what he wants.
What does indignant mean?
Angry or annoyed
200
They had one huge shot of the splintered walkways sticking up in all directions, like Godzilla had just trampled there."
What is a simile?
200
In general terms, anything that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
300
A literary device used to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
What is imagery?
300
The writer's choice of words--an important element in the writer's voice or style.
What is diction?
300
"Depending on the course, climbers are faced with different route challenges and difficulties acclimating to the conditions of higher altitudes while trying to reach the summit."
What does acclimating most nearly mean?
Adjusting or adapting
300
He was so hungry, he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.
What is a hyperbole?
300
Figurative language when the opposite of what is expected occurs.
What is situational irony?
400
A reference in a literary work to another piece of literature, history, music, etc.
What is an allusion?
400
The way an author puts words together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is syntax?
400
"While laser hair removal seems to be a permanent solution to the hair hating problem, there are impediments: it is neither permanent or is it absolute."
What does "impediments" most nearly mean in the above sentence?
An interference or hindrance.
400
"Across the bay stood protective mountains, shoulder to shoulder, across the Concepcion peninsula."
What is personification?
400
The definition of theme.
What is the main idea, message, lesson about life, human nature, etc. that the author communicates in his/her writing?
500
A literary device where the audience or reader knows more than the characters in a play.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Four aspects of writing that reveal author's tone.
What is diction, syntax, detail, and figurative language?
500
"When he did not surface, some speculated he was hiding in a cave. The rumors were dispelled when his frozen body was found months later."
What does dispelled mean?
Disproved
500
The basic building blocks of stories that all writers use to create stories.