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To rewrite a passage in different words.
What is paraphrase?
100
a shelter or hiding place if used as a noun, something secretive if used as an adjective
What is covert?
100
the person or voice telling the story
What is a narrator?
100
I, he and she is an example of this type of case
What is the subjective case?
100
A word that reflects the sound it refers to
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A literary device used to help build suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A thick or dense growth of shrubs, thorns, or small trees
What is a thicket?
200
the comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
200
In subject-verb agreement, these are the words in a sentence that should help you remember to pay attention to the subject that is closest to the verb
What are neither nor, either or, not only but also?
200
comparison of two things without using the term like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to each other
What is alliteration?
300
forming a great number of something
What is multitudinous?
300
the portrayal or depiction of a fictional person in a work of literature
What is characterization?
300
When you see these phrases in a s-v agreement sentence you should ignore them
What are prepositional phrases?
300
the location or time period in which a story takes place
What is setting?
400
A word or phrase that has multiple meanings and those meanings are played upon usually to create humor
What is a pun?
400
timid; fearful
What is tremulous?
400
the arrangement of words in regularly measured rhythmic lines or verses
What is meter?
400
If you see this in a s-v agreement sentence treat it as singular.
What is an amount?
400
A struggle occurring in a work of literature that helps forward the plot and create suspense
What is conflict?
500
A character used to make another character look better by contrast
What is a foil?
500
to gesture wildly
What is gesticulate?
500
a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth
What is a paradox?
500
All of the following words--together, in, under, along, with, for, above, below--are classified as...
What are prepositions?
500
a foot of two syllables as in come live/ with me/ and be/ my love
What is an iamb?