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What's on your mind
Talking Junk
Nuts and Bolts
Play with Words
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Giving credit to an author or source of information.
What is a citation?
100
A particular perspective.
What is point of view?
100
A conversation.
What is discourse?
100
A moral of a story or a message that carries through a story.
What is a theme?
100
Using images (written) symbolism.
What is figurative language?
200
A term for a type writing that has intense emotion.
What is drama?
200
Story line - The parts that make a plot, ie...character, setting, etc.
What are elements of a plot?
200
Making sense, fitting together, easily understandable.
What is coherence?
200
The main topic of a paper or work of literature.
What is a thesis?
200
A source, where something (a word) comes from, origins.
What is etymology?
300
comparing one thing to another , a similarity between something.
What is an analogy?
300
The events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect.
What is plot?
300
The way to pronounce a word or a way to speak.
What is diction?
300
Represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend.
What is an antagonist?
300
Summarizing something, usually a story or research in your own words.
What is paraphrase?
400
It contains the focus of your essay or composition.
What is a thesis?
400
Used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes emotional responses.
What is imagery?
400
The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases.
What is alliteration?
400
A note that is made while reading any form of text.
What is annotation?
400
Characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter".
What is consonance?
500
A tool for communicating expectations.
What is a rubric?
500
A word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
What is an onomatopeia?
500
Figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
What is allusion?
500
Any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to non-human animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as spirits or deities.
What is personification or anthropomorphism?
500
A form of poetry that commonly has 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?