Vocabulary
Text Structures
Figurative Language
Writing
Miscellaneous
100

What is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing, created through diction, figurative language, and other choices?

Mood

100

What is the order or pattern a writer uses to organize information?

Text Structure

100

What is the definition of figurative language?

Expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level.

100

What is a statement in which you give your position on an argument?

Claim

100

What are the necessary components of a work of literature?

Literary elements

200

What is the central idea or message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life?

Theme

200

What is a text structure that presents facts, events, ordetails in the order in which they occurred in time?

Chronological

200

Which type of figurative language is the following definition:

A comparison of two dissimilar things.

Metaphor

200

What is an idea that is contrary to the author’s position or point of view?

Counterclaim

200

Which of the following is not a literary element:

Diction

Style

Theme

Characters

Theme

300

What is the author’s, speaker’s, or narrator’s attitude toward a subject, evident through diction and other style elements?

Tone

300

What is a text structure that presents a problem or series of problems with suggestions on how to solve them?

Problem and Solution

300

Which type of figurative language is the following example:

“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.”

Personification

300

What is the part of an essay where you address the audience directly and tell them what you want them to do based on the information you have presented to them?

Call to action

300

What is a text structure that explains how or why something happened?

Cause and effect

400

What is the subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun?

Topic

400

What is a text structure that details a subject’s characteristics?

Description

400

What mood is created by the following example of figurative language:

"... Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius."

Urgent, excited

400

What is a statement that shares the central idea of an essay found at the end of the introduction?

A thesis statement

400

What is a text structure that explains similarities and differences between two or more things?

Compare and Contrast

500

What is a way of expressing something in writing or speech that is developed using various techniques?

Style

500

What is a text structure that presents steps in a process?

Sequence

500

What mood is created by the following example of figurative language:

"His flesh gripped him and shrank as if it had been plunged in acid."

Panicked, distressed, horrified

500

What is the most important point that an author makes about a topic in a text?

Central Idea

500

Which text structure is being used in the following example:

"...the finite number of ways that facial muscles can move creates a basic template of expressions that are then filtered through culture to gain meaning. If this is indeed the case, such cultural diversity in facial expressions will prove challenging to emerging technologies that aspire to decode and react to human emotion..."

Cause and effect