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a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing
What Is Excerpt
100
A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.
What is Figurative Language
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words that don’t make sense together but have a bigger meaning behind them
What is Idiom
100
This word visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is Imagery
100
This word takes words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.
What is Literal
200
This term refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.
What is extended metaphor
200
This word is an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page.
What is footnote
200
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and/or meanings
What is Homonym
200
This word describes the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is Irony
200
This word concerns the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form
What is Literary
300
Food, containers of water, weapons, medicine, garments, fire starters is an example of what.
What is an excerpt
300
The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor, is an example of
What is Figurative Language
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“Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”
What is Extended Metaphor
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Blah blah blah, blah, blah blah, and Swain notes, "Blah blah blah."1 Paar disagrees, arguing, "Blah, blah blah."2 Both authors agree that there are three main issues, but Swain thinks number two is most important.3 Paar, on the other hand, thinks that blah blah blah.4 It is possible that neither author is correct, although Swain raises an interesting point, saying, "Blah, blah, blah."5 This is a
What is a Footnote
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tale and tail are examples of
What is a homonym
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A chip on your shoulder
What is an idiom
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On a starry winter night in Portugal
What is imagery
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A person who claims to be a vegan and avoids meat but will eat a slice of pepperoni pizza because they are hungry
What is Irony
400
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE Some example from a text file. #+END_EXAMPLE
What is Literal
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Runk lives in rain barrels and eats raindrops, rusty rainbows
What is literary
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My older brother, Caleb, stands in the aisle, holding a railing above his head to keep himself steady. We don’t look alike. He has my father’s dark hair and hooked nose and my mother’s green eyes and dimpled cheeks
What is Divergent
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President Snow goes on to tell us what happened in the previous Quarter Quells. “On the twenty-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that their children were dying because of their choice to initiate violence, every district was made to hold an election and vote on the tributes who would represent it.
What is Catching Fire
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You've got to come, Luke, or you'll hate yourself the rest of your life. When you dont have to hide anymore, even years from now, there'll always be some small part of you whispering 'I don't deserve this. I didnt fight for it. I'm not worth it.'
What is Among the Hidden
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The graduating students occupied Room 8 of the Ember School. On Assignment Day of the year 241, this classroom, usually noisy first thing in the morning, was completely silent. All twenty-four students sat upright and still in the desks they had grown too big for. They were waiting.
What is City of Ember
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First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say "diary" on it. Great. All I need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Ugly Truth