Language
Communication
Writing
Literature
Media, Research, and Logic
100
Although, therefore, next, then, after
What are transition words?
100
Restating someone's writing into your own words?
What is paraphrasing?
100
A structure that looks at similarities and difference between two topics
What is compare and contrast?
100
Type of conflict where a character is dealing with his own internal emotions, feelings, and problems
What is person vs. self?
100
A figure of speech that compares two or more things that have something in common. Implies the comparison instead of directly stating it--does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
the grammatically correct term for an incomplete sentence.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
A question you don't mean to be answered?
What is a rhetorical question?
200
A reference to another work of literature, historical event, or mythology
What is an allusion?
200
Something that is true and can be proven?
What is a fact?
200
The use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
300
What should you start off your conclusion sentence with in your persuasive essay?
What is I hope or I wish?
300
Who the text is written for or who will read it?
What is an audience?
300
Words that can't be taken literally because it means something different
What is an idiom?
300
This punctuation mark can be used to separate simple things in a list.
What is a comma?
300
Act naturally, seriously funny, liquid gas, and act naturally are all examples of this . . .
What is a hyperbole?
400
What is stating the main idea of the text in your own words?
What is summarizing?
400
A mode of writing in which the author tries to convince someone or change their mind about something
What is a persuasive essay?
400
Repeating sounds at the beginning of words or phrases
What is alliteration?
400
An author's introduction of the characters, setting, and situation at the beginning of a story, novel, or play
What is exposition?
400
A figure of speech using like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
What is a simile?
500
Judgment, thoughts, and opinions about a text.
What is a critique?
500
A sentence that describes your belief or what will be addressed in the paper
What is a thesis statement?
500
Giving living qualities to something that isn't living
What is personification?
500
An individual in a literary work?
What is a character?
500
Daily Double!!!!! You can double your money on this question: This narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts of only one character but refers to that character as "he" or "she"
What is third person point of view (or limited third person point of view).