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What is a summary?
A central idea and main supporting details are used to write this.
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What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
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What are lines?
Sentences of a poem are called this.
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What is mood?
How a story makes a reader feel
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What is persuasive or persuasion?
This type of writing is used to convince people to agree with you.
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison that states something is something else.
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What is a stanza?
A "paragraph" in a poem is called this.
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What is tone?
The author's attitude about a subject; the thoughts and feelings of the characters; the setting
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What is a thesis or thesis statement?
A sentence that explains what your paper will be about. It's located at the end of the introduction.
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What is onomatopoeia?
Sound words
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What is an ode?
A poem that expresses love and admiration
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What is foreshadowing?
Clues an author gives to the ending of a story are called this.
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What is the exposition?
The beginning of a narrative is called this.
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What is alliteration?
When beginning sounds sound the same
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What is a sonnet?
A poem that has 14lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme
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What is theme?
The main message/ life lesson in a work of fiction
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What is the rising action?
The part of the story that leads to the climax of the story is called this.
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What is imagery?
Using figurative language to create a picture in a reader's mind is called this.
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What is a couplet?
A two line stanza that rhymes
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What is irony
When the opposite if what is expected happens
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