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Vocabulary
Literary elements
Grammar Components
Literary techniques
Grab bag
100
a variety show, typically including striptease
What is burlesque?
100
Where characters of a narrative speak to one another
What is dialogue?
100
noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, conjunction, pronoun
What is the 8 parts of speech?
100
it is comparing two unlike objects without using like or as
What is metaphor?
100
being overly arrogant
What is hubris?
200
Attractively lively or cheeky
What is pert?
200
the central idea or concept of a story.
What is a theme?
200
a sentence that consists of a subject and predicate
What is clause?
200
an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
a literary practice of using a comparatively milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form.
What is euphemism?
300
extreme greed for wealth or material gain
What is avarice?
300
a person who is telling the story
What is narrator?
300
a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
What is phrases?
300
giving humanlike characteristics to an inanimate object
What is personification?
300
an idea or concept that is presented consistently throughout the entire body of literature
What is motif?
400
a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen
What is trepidation?
400
It refers to the time or place in which a story takes place
What is setting?
400
a word in the nominative case that completes a copulative verb
What is predicate nominative?
400
it is the use of the words in such a way the intended meaning is completely opposite to their literal meaning
What is irony?
400
unchanging characters
What is static characters?
500
an accusation in response to one from someone else
What is recrimination?
500
the logical sequence of events that develop a story
What is plot?
500
a noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb
What is direct object?
500
a literary technique in which an abstract idea is given a form of characters, actions or events
What is allegory?
500
not showing proper respect
What is impertinent?