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literary terms
writing process
Reading comprehension
100
irony
What is a term that means different from what a person would expect?
100
stage of writing when grammar and spelling is corrected
What is editing?
100
moral or lesson of a story
What is a theme?
200
allusion
What is a reference to a religious person/event, a past historical event or place?
200
brainstorming for ideas
What is prewriting?
200
time and place
What is setting?
300
comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
writing that tells a story
What is a narrative?
300
main idea in a reading or writing
What is a thesis statement?
400
a question that is meant to provoke thought, not a direct answer
What is a rhetorical question?
400
writing that convinces a person to do something or to think in a certain way.
What is a persuasive writing?
400
the reason a writer constructs a writing
What is author's purpose?
500
giving human qualities to a non-human thing
What is personification?
500
changing the content of your writing
What is revising?
500
a type of reading where you first scan questions and then read for answers
What is skimming?