Vocabulary
This vocabulary word describes a burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped, such as the famous one from Turin that depicts an image of Jesus Christ.
What is shroud?
For commas to be necessary in a list, the list must be (this many or more).
What is three or more?
Supernatural elements, gloomy settings, and an isolated protagonist are all features of this genre.
What is Gothic literature?
The thesis statement should be located in this part of an essay.
"The crowd was like a pack of hungry wolves."
The name of this figurative device.
What is a simile?
This vocabulary word describes something of extreme importance or vital to the resolution of a crisis.
What is crucial?
This structure is evident in the following sentence:
"I spend my evenings reading, writing, and listening to music."
What is parallel structure?
This is the most famous American writer of Gothic literature, with many of his works still popular a century after his mysterious death.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the study of how to use language powerfully and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
"Today is the best day ever!"
This figurative device's name.
What is hyperbole?
This vocabulary word is defined as a plant disease.
What is blight?
Passive or Active Voice: The midterm was aced by the scholar.
What is passive voice?
This character type is someone who is usually well liked and respected, but makes a terrible choice and has a fall from grace, sometimes resulting in their death.
What is a tragic hero?
These are the three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
Clark Kent, Wade Wilson, Bruce Banner, Magical Mister Mistoffelees.
This vocabulary word is similar to words like illness, disease, or sickness.
What is malady?
"Karma, the youngest of my three cats, loves to snuggle in blankets."
The commas in this sentence highlight this type of phrase.
What is a parenthetical phrase?
This term refers to surreal, nonsensical situations, named after the writer Franz Kafka.
What is Kafkaesque?
A famous basketball player promotes an athletic brand's new shoe line. This is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
The figurative language used in describing someone as "tragically beautiful."
What is oxymoron?
A person with artful and persuasive speech can be described with this word
What is glib?
"Running late, the bus passed by Jason."
The error in this sentence is called this.
What is a misplaced modifier?
This is the philosophy that humans are searching for meaning and purpose in their life, made popular in writing like "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.
What is existentialism?
What are speaker, purpose, audience, context, exigence, choices, appeals, tone?
"Mark struck a streak of luck."
The figurative language used in this sentence is called this.
What is consonance?