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100
A lesson that is learned.
What is a moral?
100
A passage that is spoken or taken from a literary work.
What is a quote?
100
Extra information added to the end of a book.
What is an appendix?
100
All knowing, narrator, god-like.
What is omniscient?
100
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous).
What is tone?
200
A book of synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
200
A short moral story usually with animals.
What is a parable or fable?
200
Not alike, dissimilar.
What is a contrast?
200
14 line poetic verse with a specific rhyme pattern, Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
200
Part of speech in which the part is used for the whole (ie. the law=policeman).
What is synecdoche?
300
A list of writings, publications, or web sites used for research.
What is a bibliography?
300
A joke using words with similar sounds, but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
300
Reference to a well known person, place or event that the author hopes you understand.
What is an allusion?
300
A false image or perception of an individual or group.
What is a stereotype?
300
Text that tells a first-hand account of an event; original works used when researching (letters, journals)
What is a primary source?
400
A yearly publication about weather, astronomy and other miscellaneous facts.
What is an almanac?
400
A word or phrase that is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning.
What is irony?
400
The manner in which words are arranged into sentences.
What is syntax?
400
"The original" on which others are based.
What is an archetype?
400
The introductory material that provides the setting, the tone, the characters, and other facts necessary in order to understand a story.
What is exposition?
500
An accepted truth or belief expressed in a memorable statement (ie. An apple a day keeps the doctor away).
What is an aphorism?
500
The repetition of first letters, inside words.
What is alliteration?
500
Two words with opposite meanings put together for a special effect (ie. jumbo shrimp)
What is an oxymoron?
500
The narrator refers to themselves as "I" in a story.
What is first person?
500
A preference that prevents one from being impartial or fair in one's decisions and judgments.
What is bias?