Name this rhetorical element: To hint at or present things to come in a story or play.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes, such as buzz or hiss.
What is Onomatopoeia
100
You use this type of listening when you are listening to another person's feelings.
What is empathic listening?
100
All of the dogs in the neighborhood (was / were) barking.
What is were?
100
True or false: Personal prejudice is not a barrier to listening.
What is false?
200
The feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's
attitude and point of view. The effect is created through descriptions of feelings or objects
that establish a particular feeling such as gloom, fear, or hope.
What is mood
200
Name the rhetorical element: An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect.
What is diction?
200
_____________ involves more than just receiving sound.
What is listening?
200
Everybody in the class (have / has) tickets.
What is has
200
Statistics (is / are) an interesting subject. Statistics (is / are) often misleading
What is is; are?
300
With this element, an author uses terms related to the five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory)
What is imagery?
300
Name the rhetorical element: What is implied by a word. For example, the words sweet, gay, and awesome have
connotations that are quite different from their actual definitions.
What is connotation?
300
You use this type of listening to get information (news, directions, etc.)
What is informational listening?
300
Name the infinitive phrase in this sentence: This is the best time to start.
What is to start?
300
Name the type of verbal used in the following sentence: You need the highest number of points to win.
What is an infinitive (to win)?
400
A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant
What is irony
400
A direct comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as to draw the
connection.
What is a simile?
400
Name two external barriers to listening.
What is (answers may vary)?
400
Name the gerund phrase: Jogging three miles every day is good for you.
What is Jogging three miles every day?
400
Name the gerund phrase in this sentence: The contractor was given a building on Mulberry Street.
What is building on Mulberry Street?
500
someone who is not always perceptive about what’s going on in the story, or someone who is deliberately not telling the whole truth.
What is an unreliable narrator
500
The central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the main idea or meaning. This is often a life lesson.
What is theme?
500
This is what one does in the proofreading stage of the writing process.
What is check for grammar, punctuation and spelling errors?
500
Name the participle phrase in this sentence: The water boiling on the stove is hot.
What is boiling on the stove?
500
Name the type of verbal used in the following sentence: The windows were cracked by vandals.