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This is a word that means the same thing or a similar thing to another word.
What is a synonym?
A verb form that can act as an adjective and ends in -ing for present or -ed for past.
What is a participle?
A type of source in which accounts are told from first-hand experience, such as a diary or photograph.
What is a primary source?
The central point of an argument, often supported by details.
What is a claim?
Language that is not used literally.
What is figurative language?
This comes in the middle of a word and means "light."
What is the Latin root -lum-?
This is a participle and its modifiers or complements.
What is a participial phrase?
The reasons why a character behaves in a certain way.
What are character motivations?
The central insight about life or humanity within a creative text.
What is a theme?
A figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two seemingly dissimilar things.
What is a simile?
This comes in the middle of a word and has means "feeling" or "emotion."
What is the Greek root -path-?
This is a verb form usually preceded by "to" that acts as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an infinitive?
A type of story that tells of real events.
What is narrative nonfiction?
The opposite of a writer's main argument, typically addressed either at the beginning, or towards the end of the argument.
What is a counterclaim?
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
These are words or phrases that surround an unknown term and help to reveal its meaning.
What are context clues?
This consists of an infinitive and all its modifiers.
What is an infinitive phrase?
Details, such as thoughts, actions, or dialogue, which an author includes to inform about a character.
What is characterization?
A type of writing that presents and defends a claim using logic.
What is an argument?
Anything that stands for something else; typically used to represent abstract ideas.
What is a symbol?
It comes at the end of a word and means "having to do with" or "a state of being."
What is the suffix -tion?
A participial phrase that modifies an entire sentence.
What is an absolute phrase?
A type of narrative in which a smaller story is told within the larger story, often shifting from third-person or first-person point of view to the other.
What is a frame story?
The use of successive verbal constructions which correspond in grammatical structure to emphasize a point.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
A type of vivid word choice. Descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader, appealing to one of the five sense.
What is imagery?