Rhetoric
This refers to who the author is trying to reach.
Audience
This part of a narrative introduces the characters, setting, and central conflict.
Exposition
The use of correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in writing.
Conventions
Words with similar meanings are synonyms.
Synonyms
Language that goes beyond literal meaning to create images or deeper meaning.
What is exigence?
The ungency in which action should be taken
The series of events that build tension and develop the conflict.
This punctuation mark is used to end a declarative sentence.
Period
Using nearby words to figure out meaning is
using context clues.
A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile
This appeal relies on emotion to influence the audience’s feelings.
Pathos
The underlying message or lesson of a narrative.
Theme
When dialogue ends, punctuation usually goes inside these marks.
Quotation marks
Using nearby words to figure out meaning is using context clues.
Denotation
A direct comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
A question asked for effect rather than an answer.
Rhetorical question
Comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
Simile
Capitalizing names, places, and titles correctly follows this convention.
Capitalization
The feeling a word gives is its
Connotation
Giving human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas.
Personification
An author describing their firsthand experience with an issue is primarily using this appeal.
Ethos
The author’s attitude toward the subject, revealed through word choice.
Tone
This error occurs when two independent clauses are joined without correct punctuation.
Run on sentence
When choosing a synonym, you must keep this the same
The original meaning
An object, action, or image that represents a deeper meaning in a narrative.
symbolism