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Literary Terms
Grammar
Figures of Speech
Literary Devices
Business Letter
100
slang- everyday language
What is colloquialism
100
a sentence that can stand on its own with meaning
What is an independent clause?
100
a comparison between two things.
What is a metaphor?
100
Is where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
100
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What is heading?
200
a story with a moral lesson
What is a fable?
200
a dependent clause that functions as a noun.
What is a noun clause?
200
"If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced."
What is assonance?
200
the first situations wherein the main character gets to encounter problems in search for his need in the story.
What is rising action?
200
The greeting of a business letter.
What is salutation?
300
to make fun of human characteristics
What is satire?
300
a word that joins two sentences, or is used as an introductory phrase.
What is a connector (transition)?
300
•"O brawling love! O loving hate! . . . O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this." (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
What is an oxymoron?
300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
300
How an envelope should be addressed.
What are block letters?
400
Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown. Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
What is enjambment?
400
I can't remember at which university Albert Einstein taught.
What is a Wh- question clause?
400
It's raining cats and dogs
What is a hyperbole?
400
Flashbacks--memories of events from a character's past
What is exposition?
400
Sincerely, Lisa Smith
What is closing?
500
groups of words on the same level showing opposites
What is juxtaposition?
500
I don't know whether our projects are due next week.
What is a yes/no question clause?
500
"Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing gloves." (P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 1930)
What is personification?
500
Big fight sequence; finding the treasure; hero enters villain's lair and rescues the maiden; the mega-storm happens; girl and boy go out on date at last.
What is climax?
500
There are separate lines for the title of the addressee, the division or department the person works in and the name of his or her company, business or organization.
What is the mailing address on the envelope?