Figurative Language
•A description that appeals to the senses and paints an image in the reader’s head, like the comforting sounds of a warm crackling flame.
What is Imagery?
What is a period?
The part of a sentence that causes the action in a sentence.
What is the Subject.
The primary forms of persuasion used to persuade others to accept a person's point of view.
What is a rhetorical appeal?
These kinds of questions are meant to test your ability to spell and define words.
What is vocabulary?
An indirect reference to literature, art or history?
What is allusion?
Used to connect an independent clause to a dependent clause in a singular sentence, like a list.
What is a colon?
The kind of verb that modifies the context of a verb.
What is an adverb?
A sappy commercial with maimed puppies is an example of this.
What is pathos?
This kind of question is designed to test your mastery of punctuation and the rules of the English language.
What is grammar?
Words like "Buzz, Hiss, or Bam!" represent their respective sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The three dots used to remove parts of a quote or for dramatic effect.
What are Ellipses?
The grammatical rule that states that verbs in a sentence must match the details associated with the subject.
What is subject-verb agreement?
A dentist telling you how much plaque his toothpaste removes after a week of use is an example of this.
This kind of question forces you to think about your general understanding of what you just got done reading.
What is reading comprehension?
An indirect comparison of two dissimilar things.
What is a metaphor?
Used to connect two complete, independent clauses into one sentence.
What is a semi-colon?
An optional component of a sentence that provides relevant context to a complete sentence.
What is the indirect object?
Having a respected police officer in your community sell you on the idea that drugs are bad for you is an example of this.
What is ethos?
This tests your ability to identify and analyze the components of effective story telling.
What is writing structure?
A word that sounds scientific but is the understatement of a situation by a person or character in literature, such as losing an arm and calling it a flesh wound.
What is meiosis?
The most common way to connect dependent clauses and conjunctions in a sentence.
What is a comma?
The term that can be interchangeable with term "a complete sentence."
The component of a rhetorical appeal that is the quality of being trusted and believed in.
What is credibility?
This tests your ability to identify both the message or point of a given text and the way that message or point is being emphasized.
What is theme?