What is a comparison using "like" or "as".
His head is as hard as a rock!
100
A contrast or discrepancy between an expected outcome and the actual result.
What is irony?
100
When a reader uses background knowledge and what the text says to figure out what isn't being stated by the author. Requires high level thinking.
What is an inference?
100
Literal and interpretive questions.
What are two types of questions readers use to help them understand what they are reading?
100
This type of writing requires the writer to use their opinion, facts and the three appeals.
What is persuasive writing?
200
metaphor
What is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
His head is a rock!
200
The speaker says one thing and means another
What is verbal irony?
200
This is a type of inferencing that requires a reader to examine what the character says and does to figure out underlying traits and motivation.
What is characterization?
200
These questions require students to bring information forward, make connections, offer opinions and explanations.
What is an interpretive question?
200
This type of writing requires the writer to use no emotion, but relies heavily on the use of text evidence and analysis.
What is literary analysis?
300
Personification
What is a type of metaphor in which inhuman things/objects are given human qualities.
The wind cried in the dark.
300
A situation in which there is a great difference between the purpose of a particular action and the result.
What is situational irony?
300
This is a type of inferencing that requires the reader to use their background knowledge and what has happened so far in the text to make a prediction about what might happen next.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Questions that are sometimes called “right-there questions,” because they can be answered by finding the information directly-stated within the text.
What is a literal question?
300
This type of writing requires the writer to explain a personal experience or belief without trying to convince the reader of anything.
What is expository writing?
400
A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well.
What is symbolism.
400
When a character or audience member is aware of a situation in the play that the other characters aren't.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This is a tool often used by writer's to convey multiple messages and must be analyzed by the reader in order to fully understand a text.
What is figurative language?
400
When reading Twelfth Night you answered this type of question by looking in the text and using what was directly stated in the play.
What is a literal question?
400
This part of an essay works as a road map for the reader and lets them know what the essay will be about.
What is the thesis?
500
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration, such as in the expression "I am so hungry I could eat a horse."
500
When Viola and the audience are aware that she is a woman dressed as a man, but none of the other characters in the play are.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A reader must look at characterization, setting, context and apply background knowledge to identify the following in a story.
What is theme?
500
When reading Twelfth Night you had to answer this type of question by analyzing what the characters said and did, and then combine that with your background knowledge.
What is an interpretive question?
500
This is used in literary analysis and in persuasive essays. It helps support the writer's thesis.