a sentence that follows a verb-subject-object or object-subject-verb word order
What is "an inverted sentence"?
100
Shifts are...
What is "a marked change in the speaker's perspective"
100
"The dewey green grass shone reflected by the morning sun"
What is "imagery"?
100
He was a stainless steel ruler, tall, straight and always measured in response.
What is "metaphor"?
200
the feeling the reader experiences
What is "mood"?
200
Definition of "compound sentence":
What is "two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or semicolon"
200
the measure of a line, divided into stressed and unstressed syllables
What is "meter"?
200
"Some Song Sung"
What is "Alliteration" or "Consonance"
200
KABOOM!
Kaboom!
Ka-blast
Way in the past
the miners mined for ore.
They searched for copper, iron and salt,
for that and much, much more.
What is "onomonopoeia"?
300
Def of "figurative language"
What is "language that is not literal, i.e. a figure of speech"
300
Definition of "complex sentence"
What is "a sentence containing an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses (beginning with words like "after, before, although, etc.)"
300
Enjambment is....
What is"when a line ends without a pause and must continue into the next to maintain its meaning"?
300
"White and Shining" or "Heap and Recent"
What is "assonance"?
300
I've told you a million times.
What is "hyperbole"?
400
Giving nonhuman entities human characteristics:
What is "personification"?
400
a sentence that begins with phrases or subordinate clauses, building to the independent clause.
What is "a periodic sentence".
400
What is "alliteration"?
What is "repetition of initial consonant sound in a sequence of words/syllables"
400
"music is like a dream"
What is "simile"?
400
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.
What is "imagery"?
500
Def of "Imagery"
What is "vivid mental picture or physical sensation created by appealing to one or more of the five senses"
500
Definition of a "cumulative sentence"
What is " sentence that begins with a independent clause and followed by subordinate clauses and phrases that add detail"
500
Difference between "assonance and consonance"...
What is "the former stresses repeated VOWEL sounds; the latter CONSONANTS"?
500
"The castle gate loomed harshly over the new servants"