Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Persuasive Techniques
Informative Techniques
Writing Skills
100
To encourage or support growth or success.
What is nurture?
100

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

What is a metaphor?

100

The use of words to apply an emotive reaction.

What is connotation?

100
A consistent point that is made throughout an entire text.

What is central idea?

100

The arrangement of words and phrases.

What is syntax?

200

In a way that forms the basic nature of something.

What is inherently?

200

Giving an inanimate object a human description.

What is personification?

200

The three aspects of the rhetorical triangle.

What is audience, message, and writer/speaker?

200

A writing structure that orders a list of events as they occurred over time. 

What is chronological structure?

200

A source that lists synonyms to a specific word.

What is a thesaurus?

300

Capable of being broken down into harmless components through natural processes.

What is biodegradable?

300

Use of words to communicate ideas beyond the words' literal meanings

What is figurative language?

300
The framing of words to create different reactions.

What is nuance?

300

Information that supports or proves their opinions, claims, or central ideas.

What is evidence?

300
A common writing error were two independent clauses are joined using a comma.

What is comma splicing?

400

A state of society in which diverse groups participate.

What is pluralism?

400

The description of sensory details using precise language.

What is imagery?

400

The appeal of credibility to convince a group.

What is ethos?

400

The least reliable URL domain name for valid evidence.

What is .com?

400

Terms that are commonly used in academic disciplines, such as English, the social sciences, mathematics, and the sciences.

What is Academic Vocabulary?

500

A synonym of retaliation.

What is vengeance?

500

Figurative Language influences this rhetorical technique?

What is nuance?

500

The author creates a message at the most opportune time for the audience to be persuaded.

What is kairos?

500

An opinion from an expert.

What is testimony?

500

To start a sentence with a conjunction or end a sentence with a preposition.

What is contested usage?