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Puncuation
Grammar/Usage
Sentence Structure
Literary Devices
Poetic Terms
100
Can be used to introduce a list of items.
What is a Colon?
100
These two things must agree in number.
What is a subject and a verb?
100
This kind of sentence should be split into multiple sentences.
What is a run-on?
100
"He is like a mouse in front of the teacher."
What is a simile?
100
The stance the suthor adapts in shaping the emotional perspective of the poem.
What is mood?
200
Used to show possession, or with a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
200
These words modify verbs.
What is an adverb?
200
This kind of "sentence" cannot stand on it's own.
What is a fragment?
200
Writing "Oh, what fine luck I have!" when the character actually has bad luck.
What is irony?
200
Refers to a single chunk of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
Two things that can be used between two independent clauses
What is a Semicolon and a Period?
300
A pronoun has three cases. What are two of them?
What is possessive, subjective, and objective?
300
A clause that cannot stand on it's own as a complete sentence.
What is a subordinate or dependent clause?
300
"He possessed a COLD FIRE in his eyes."
What is an oxymoron?
300
"The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way."
What is alliteration?
400
One of the things that can be used to separate important ideas?
What is a dash or a parenthesis?
400
When the verbs across sentences are of the same tense, this is called what?
What is parallelism?
400
Occurs when two independent clauses are only connected by a comma.
What is a comma splice?
400
Making a reference to another person, place, or another literary work.
What is an allusion?
400
The practice of giving human traits to nonhumans.
What is personification?
500
Often overused, and often underused.
What is a Comma?
500
A phrase similar to slang that has become correct over time through common usage?
What is an idiom?
500
When this is not placed close to the word that it describes, it is called a misplaced what?
What is a modifier?
500
Term used to show whatever resistance the protagonist is facing in the story.
What is conflict?
500
The base topic, focus, or message of a poem.
What is the theme?