The most exciting part or the turning point in a story.
What is a climax?
100
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem.
What is rhyme?
100
One sentence that tells what a paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
200
Having cleaned the bathroom, the sponges were put away.
What is a Dangling Modifier?
200
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
200
Pushed or driven to do something. Bullied or provoked into doing something.
What is goaded?
200
"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark in yard."
What is alliteration?
200
A sentence at the very beginning of an essay that catches the reader.
What is a hook sentence?
300
As soon as I finished my math homework.
What is a Sentence Fragment?
300
An example of a simile.
What is ...?
Dumb as a dog?
300
A problem or struggle within the character.
What is internal conflict?
300
Use of words whose sounds echo their sense.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Restates the thesis, summarizes the paper, and wraps everything up.
What is a conclusion paragraph?
400
Susan went to the store to get some food.
What is a complete sentence.
400
I was starving, so I wolfed my lunch.
What is a metaphor?
400
The good guy. The hero.
What is a protagonist?
400
The truth about life revealed in a work of literature.
What is theme?
400
There are differences between the alien’s appearance and in the way the space craft is shown, but the moral of the story is the same in both versions.
What is a thesis sentence?
500
They just said that it is going to rain on the radio.
What is a Misplaced Modifier?
500
An example of a metaphor.
What is ...?
Halloween is a monster who is addicted to candy.
500
A series of related events that make up a story.
What is a plot line?
500
Very still, as if nailed to the spot.
What is transfixed?
500
The part of the essay that is filled with support and details.