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A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
Two words that sound alike.
What is rhyme?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Used to connect sentences or paragraphs together.
What is a transition?
100
The feeling the author creates for the reader in a story.
What is mood?
200
An expression that means other than the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?
200
The repetition of the initial consonant sound within a line of writing.
What is alliteration?
200
Word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
200
The sentence that tells what a paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
200
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
An exaggeration used for dramatic effect.
What is a hyperbole?
300
A stanza of 4 lines.
What is a quatrain?
300
Modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
A thesis statement must include your topic and your ________ about that topic.
What is opinion?
300
The subject or ideas in a piece of writing or poetry.
What is theme?
400
Common, everyday language.
What is colloquial language.
400
A map of all the end words that have similar, connected sounds.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
Shows the relationship of a noun to another noun.
What is a preposition?
400
Usuallly the last paragraph, this is the summary of the ideas and topic presented in the essay.
What is conclusion.
400
Readers use this to determine the meaning of a word they don't know as they read.
What is a context clue?
500
All of the dramatic elements of a story.
What is plot?
500
A stanza of 3 lines.
What is a tercet?
500
Takes the place of a noun that was mentioned previously.
What is a pronoun?
500
_____________ writing is any writing with the purpose of informing.
What is expository?
500
Writing aimed at causing the audience to take action or change beleifs.
What is persuasion?