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The exact opposite. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964
What is the antithesis?
100
Samples of different types of letters.
What are guide letters?
100
A type of third person narrator that knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the charaters in a narrative.
What is omniscient?
100
Something written or created by a person who witnessed a historical event.
What is a primary source historical document?
100
A distorted, exaggerated , or oversimplified image applied to category of people.
What is a stereotype?
200
Reference to a character,place,or situation fom history or from another work of literature,music, or art. •“When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.” Scrooge was an extremely stingy character from Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol.
What is an allusion?
200
Two or more words (such as knew and new or meat and meet) that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and often spelling.
What are homophones?
200
A figure of speech that combines opposite oir contradictory terms in a brief phrase. •Walking dead •Only choice •Amazingly awful •Alone together •Virtual reality
What is an oxymoron?
200
A "play on words". -"Your calendar days are numbered."
What is a pun?
200
A tendency to mentally lean in a certain direction
What is a bias?
300
An original model on which something is patterned. The social otcast, the trickster, the villain in literature.
What is an archetype?
300
A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of 5 unstressed and 5 stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
300
A short moral story (often with animal characters).
What is a parable?
300
Eyes through which the story is told.
What is perspective?
300
A word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description.
What is a metaphor?
400
Repeated Vowel Sounds. •Try to light the fire.
What is assonance?
400
Plot,rising action, climax, falling action resolution, conflict, setting, etc.....
What are literary elements?
400
The attribution of human emotions or charateristics to inanimate objects or nature. -An angry tornado.
What is a pathetic fallacy?
400
Writing intended to influence someone to believe what you want them to believe.
What is persuasive writing?
400
Giving special meaning to objects, things, relationships or events.
What is symbolism?
500
An article giving opinions or perspectives.
What is an editorial?
500
Substituting the name of an attribute or fetaure for the name of the thing itself(•Sword - for military might).
What is metonymy?
500
A story that illustrates a specific time or incident in life.
What is a personal narrative?
500
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics. -The clouds punched each other.
What is personification?
500
When you quote a book author and then provide the name of the author and publication information about the book in a bibliography.
What is a citation?