Grammar
This is bonus information in a sentence that identifies or explains another noun.
What is an appositive?
He has a heart of stone.
What is a metaphor?
The emotional atmosphere or feeling the author creates for the reader.
What is mood?
The final stage of a plot where the main conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
Using prior knowledge and textual evidence to come to a conclusion.
What is an inference?
This is dependent clause functioning as an adjective, using a relative pronoun (who, what, that, etc.).
What is an adjective clause?
As quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
To persuade, to inform, to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
The core driver of plot, representing the struggle between opposing forces that prevents the protagonist from achieving their goals.
What is conflict?
A reference material to better understand words and their meanings.
What is a dictionary?
This connects two independent clauses using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
What is assonance?
A specific message about a single work.
What is central idea?
Text structure that suggests a way to solve a predicament.
What is problem and solution?
A concise restatement of a longer work's main ideas and plot points.
What is summary?
This is a sentence with one dependent clause combined with an independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This sentence is false.
What is a paradox?
The universal unifying idea or message in a text.
What is theme?
Patterns of rhyme that do not follow a consistent or predictable structure throughout a poem.
What is irregular rhyme scheme?
Information taken directly from an text to support claims, arguments, or analyses.
What is textual evidence?
This is a sentence that has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a Compound-Complex sentence?
A green light.
What is symbolism?
The time and place in a text.
What is setting?
Text structure that shows the result of an action.
What is cause and effect?
A device used to make a point or create dramatic effect, rather than to elicit an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?