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Prefix "par"
Types of Writing
Components of a Story
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
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An example is Saturday Night Live
What is a parody
100
a story or narrated account
What is a narrative
100
the one who tells the story; may be first- or third-person, limited or omniscient
What is a narrator
100
"the stars dance playfully in the moonlit sky"
What is personification
100
characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship
What is pedantic
200
An example would be cliff-notes or Sparknotes
What is paraphrase
200
a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson
What is a parable
200
the action of a narrative or drama
What is plot
200
"it's raining cats and dogs"
What is a metaphor
200
a strong verbal denunciation. The term comes from the orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia in the fourth century
What is philippic
300
An example is "Like father, like son."
What is parallelism
300
a story that concerns an unreal world or contains unreal characters; a fantasy may be merely whimsical, or it may present a serious point
What is a fantasy
300
the vantage point from which a story is told
What is point of view
300
"tik-tok"
What is onomatopoeia
300
the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar ("The doctor wrote a subscription")
What is malapropism
400
An example is (Author, page number)
What is parenthetical
400
a traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
What is a myth
400
the falling action of a narrative; the events following the climax
What is resolution
400
"sick as a dog"
What is an idiom
400
the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural
What is polysyndeton
500
An example is "bittersweet"
What is a paradox
500
a concise statement, often offering advice; an adage
What is a maxim
500
a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters
What is an omniscient narrator
500
"I am so hungry I could eat a horse"
What is hyperbole
500
substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ("The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting]")
What is metonymy