Fig. Lang.
heavy lightness
What is oxymoron?
Counterclaim
What is counter?
A character who provides a strong contrast to another character.
What is a foil?
Restraining
What is -strain-?
Our work today focused on drafting, reviewing, and to revise a letter.
What is revising a letter?
helps create suspense in a story
What is flashback?
Excavate
What is ex-?
A drama in which the main character meets with great misfortune.
What is a tragedy?
Intervened
What is -ven-?
Animals took shape: gold giraffes, whales, and pink panthers.
What is white?
"It quivered at each sound, the house did"
What is personification?
Meaning of the prefix inter-, Ex. intervened
What is between or among?
Refers to literature passed down through the ages by word of mouth.
What is oral tradition?
Dissemble
What is -sem-?
Rafael delivered his speech with confidence and enthusiastically?
What is enthusiasm?
nearly napping
What is alliteration?
Antisocial
What is anti-?
Text in which the writer tells the life story of another person.
What is a biography?
Manuscript
What is -man-?
Thelma likes playing the clarinet, to march in the band, and watching the football game.
What is marching in the band?
I wish I could just click my heels and go home.
What is an allusion?
Meaning of the prefix mid- Ex. Midday
What is in the middle?
work of art that is based on another work of art.
What is an adaptation?
Aspect
What is -spec-?
I have traveled by bus, by train, and by subway.
What is a correct sentence?