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A phrase where all words have the same first letter/sound.
What is alliteration?
100
Define "rising action."
What is the part of the story leading up to the climax?
100
Biggie smalls.
What is an oxymoron?
100
Define "imagery."
What is descriptive language?
100
Fancy word for "slang."
What is colloquial?
200
Red hen.
What is assonance?
200
Define "resolution."
What is the end of the conflict in a story?
200
How the author makes you feel as you read.
What is mood?
200
A really long poem.
What is an epic?
200
Define "connotation."
What is the emotional meaning behind the words?
300
Define "diction."
What is word choice?
300
The falling action in Of Mice and Men.
What is either the men searching for Lennie after he kills Curley's wife or George and Slim leaving to go get drinks?
300
Define "narrator."
What is the person telling the story?
300
An exaggeration, for effect.
What is hyperbole?
300
The literal/dictionary definition of a word.
What is the denotation?
400
Define "syntax."
What is sentence structure and word order?
400
The term for the background information of the story.
What is exposition?
400
Define "In Medias res."
What is beginning in the middle of the story?
400
Fourteen lines.
What is the number of lines in a sonnet?
400
A course of reasoning aimed at determining truth or falsehood.
What is an argument?
500
Define "similie" and "metaphor."
What is a comparison between two unlike things (similie uses "like" or "as")?
500
Define "foreshadowing."
What is clues as to what is going to happen in the story?
500
A policeman going to jail.
What is irony?
500
Define "quatrain."
What is a four line stanza?
500
Define "pun" and give a example.
What is a play on words? Example: It's not that he didn't know how to juggle, he just didn't have any balls.