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Grammar
Literary Terms
Lit Terms 2
Lit Terms 3
Wild Card
100
This is added to beginning of a word to clarify the meaning.
What is a prefix?
100
The Daily Double!!!
This sentence is an example of this. After swaying in the breeze, I thought the trees were beautiful.
100
The American flag is an example of this.
What is a symbol?
100
This is what you feel as you read a story.
What is the mood?
100
The official name of Absegami's High School's newspaper.
What is The Gami Gazette?
200
This is a group of words that can stand alone as its own sentence.
What is an independent clause?
200
This is when a reader learns about a character through their actions or words.
What is indirect characterization?
200
Descriptive language an author uses to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200
This is a word's definition found in the dictionary.
What is denotation?
200
A word or group of words that help you understand something that would other wise be incomprehensible
What is a context clue?
300
This affix is attached to the end of the word to clarify meaning.
What is a suffix?
300
Hera punishing Zeus's mistresses is an example of this type of external conflict.
What is Man vs. Supernatural
300
The main guy or gal. The opposite of the antagonist.
What is the protagonist?
300
This is the emotion or the feelings that we attach to a word.
What is the connotation?
300
These can some times be replaced with semicolons.
What are a comma and F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.
400
This can be used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
400
The person telling a story.
What is the narrator?
400
This is when a character faces a problem with an outside force.
What is external conflict?
400
This type of irony is when an audience knows something that the characters are unaware of in the story.
What is dramatic irony?
400
The southern most county of New Jersey.
What is Cape May County?
500
This punctuation mark can sometimes be used to replace a comma and one of the FANBOYS.
What is a semicolon?
500
This is the main argument in your research paper.
What is the thesis?
500
This is a character that transforms significantly (a lot) during the story.
What is a dynamic character?
500
Junior vs. his decision to leave the reservation is an example of this.
What is man vs. himself (or internal conflict)?
500
Edgar Allan Poe is an expert at creating this when he uses eerie words and explains dreary setting.
What is tone?