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What is a flashback?
What is denotation?
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What is denotation?
The dictionary definition of a word.
The implications associated with a word.
The turning point of the story.
The problem in a story.
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What is a flashback?
The events of a story.
The dictionary definition of a word.
Referring to events that happened in the past.
The feeling a text creates.
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What is a symbol?
The problem in a story.
Person/place/thing represents something else.
The events of a story.
Author gives hints about future events.
4
What is an antagonist?
Emotional implications of a word.
A perfect example of a type or group.
Dictionary definition of a word.
The person, idea, or force who opposes the protagonist.
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What is audience?
The group the author is addressing in writings.
Any character except the protagonist and antagonist.
The person watching the events in a story.
None of the above.
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What is imagery?
An ethical appeal.
A logical appeal.
Collection of images in a literary piece of work.
Dictionary definition of a word.
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What is it called when elements of a sentence or paragraph are equally developed or phrased?
Hyperbole
Plot
Parallel structure/parallelism
Allusion
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A mild or indirect word substituted for one that is considered harsh or blunt is
euphemism
antecedent
oxymoron
symbol
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What is it called when an author appeals to ethics?
pathos
none of the above
logos
ethos
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What is voice?
A writer's opinion
The mask or second self through which a narrative is told
How the reader feels while reading
A reader's thoughts
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What is genre?
Types or categories literary works are grouped into
A deliberate exaggeration.
Collection of images in a literary piece of work.
Author hints at things that are going to happen.
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A combination of contradictory words is
an oxymoron
a metaphor
parallel structure
a simile
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What is a stanza?
The turning point of the story.
The time and place of a story.
Group of lines forming a metrical unit in a poem; a verse
The problem of a story.
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What is the definition of irony?
The outcome of a situation is different than expected.
A person/place/thing is used to represent something else.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
The author gives hints about future events.
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What is figurative language?
Using hyperboles.
Language that is metaphorical or symbolic in meaning.
Using irony.
Using denotations of words.
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What is logos?
An appeal to ethics.
An appeal to emotions.
None of these.
An appeal to logic or reason.
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A direct comparison not using like or as is
an oxymoron
a metaphor
a simile
a euphemism
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What is point of view?
A direct comparison not using like or as.
The vantage point from which the author tells a story.
The type or category a story belongs to.
A hint of what is going to happen.
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What is tone?
The author's attitude about the subject.
The emotional implications of a word.
The feeling you get from a text.
A reference to someone/something famous.
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What is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they came directly from the reader?
Rhythm
Irony
Hyperbole
Stream of Consciousness
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What is a simile?
A direct comparison not using like or as.
A reference to past events.
A deliberate exaggeration.
A comparison of two things using like or as.
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What is pathos an appeal to?
Logic
Ethics
Your teachers
Emotions
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What is a protagonist?
The main character in a story.
Reference to popular/well-known literature, art, or music.
Outcome of a situation is different than expected.
A direct comparison not using like or as.
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What is the definition of conventions?
None of the above
Appealing to a reader's emotions
Standard rules of grammar and punctuation for writing.
Emotional implications associated with a word
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What is mood?
The feeling a text creates.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
Referring to events that happened in the past.
The author's message or meaning of a story.
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What is hyperbole?
Outcome of a situation is different than expected.
The implications associated with a word.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
Referring to events that happened in the past.
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What is connotation?
The setting of a story.
The dictionary definition of a word.
The implications associated with a word.
The conflict of a story.
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A perfect example of a type or group is an
audience
oxymoron
archetype
euphemism
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What is an allusion?
Referring to events that happened in the past.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
Reference to popular/well-known pieces of lit., art, music
Outcome of a situation is different than expected.
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What is foreshadowing?
A person/place/thing represents something else.
An exaggeration for emphasis.
An outcome of a situation is different than expected.
The author gives hints about what is going to happen.
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What is personification?
Giving human traits to inanimate objects.
A comparison using like or as.
A deliberate exaggeration.
The person who opposes the protagonist.
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What is theme?
The main idea of a story.
A dictionary definition of the word.
The problem in the story.
The message or lesson the author is trying to get across.
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Making a guess based on context clues is called an
audience
euphemism
oxymoron
inference
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What is the term for an attitude or position taken by a writer w/purpose of proving it?
Thesis
Tone
Voice
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