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$200 Answer from Key Terms

The sequence of events in a story; the action of a story

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What is plot?

$400 Answer from Key Terms

Hints or clues that help readers predict what will happen later in a story

$400 Question from Key Terms

What is foreshadowing?

$600 Answer from Key Terms

A comparison, meant to produce imagery, that uses the word “like” or “as” to show how two different things share similarities: “It was confusing like the inside of a watch” (Soto 253).

$600 Question from Key Terms

What is a simile?

$800 Answer from Key Terms

An expression that cannot be understood simply by looking at the words’ denotations: “He watched her on the sly” (Soto 255); hit the lights; cut it out!

$800 Question from Key Terms

What is an idiom?

$1000 Answer from Key Terms

A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens; a contrast between what the audience knows and a character knows: In “A Retrieved Reformation,” Jimmy Valentine retrieves his reformation by doing that which placed him in prison in the first place.

$1000 Question from Key Terms

What is irony?

$200 Answer from Grammar & Writing

The “E” in the acronym “PLEA.” The bold-print statement in the following example: Felix won the fight because he suckered Antonio into a slugfest: “The two boxers fought toe-to-toe . . . " (Thomas 285).

$200 Question from Grammar and Writing

What is Evidence with Documentation?

$400 Answer from Grammar and Writing

A way to repair the grammatical mistake in the following example: If you don’t turn in your homework. You will receive no credit for the assignment.

$400 Question from Grammar & Writing

What is Replace the period with a comma, lowercase the “Y” in “You,” and combine all of the words into one complex sentence?

$600 Answer from Grammar & Writing

The “A” in the acronym “PLEA.” This is the writer’s attempt to explain how the evidence supports the point.

$600 Question from Irregular Verbs

What is Analysis?

$800 Answer from Grammar & Writing

The definition of a compound sentence

$800 Question from Grammar & Writing

What is a combination of usually two complete thoughts (two independent clauses) by using a comma and a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, nor, for, so, or yet) or by using a semicolon?

$1000 Answer from Grammar & Writing

The three needed elements of in-text citation (MLA)

$1000 Question from Grammar & Writing

What are quotation marks around the evidence, (in parentheses) the author’s last name and page number of the cited text, followed by the sentence’s end mark?

$200 Answer from Literature

The turning point of a story: In “Seventh Grade,” the French-class scene, when Mr. Bueller has the ability to embarrass Victor or allow him to impress Teresa

$200 Question from Literature

What is climax?

$400 Answer from Literature

The introduction to a story’s main characters, setting, and basic situation

$400 Question from Literature

What is exposition?

$600 Answer from Literature

In the plot of a story, the point at which external and internal conflicts dominate the narrative

$600 Question from LiteratureWhat is rising action?

$800 Answer from Literature

The events within a narrative that are a reaction to the story’s climax; the events after the climax of a story and before the resolution

$800 Question from LiteratureWhat is falling action?

$1000 Answer from Literature

A writer’s attempts to reveal characters through what the characters say and do; readers have to make inferences about the characters

$1000 Question from LiteratureWhat is indirect characterization?

$200 Answer from Analogies

Idiom : It’s raining cats and dogs! :: ____________ : “A river of nervous sweat ran down his back” (Soto 255).

$200 Question from Analogies

What is a metaphor?

$400 Answer from Analogies

Third-person point of view : the narrator is not a character :: ____________ : the narrator is a character.

$400 Question from Analogies

What is first-person point of view?

$600 Answer from Analogies

___________ : one complete thought :: a compound sentence : more than one complete thought joined into one sentence.

$600 Answer from Analogies

What is a simple sentence?

$800 Answer from Analogies

Hyperbole : extreme, purposeful exaggeration :: __________ : vivid description meant to help a reader visualize a scene.

$800 Question from Analogies

What is imagery?

$1000 Answer from Analogies

A word’s dictionary definition : denotation :: the thought’s and feelings evoked by a word : _________________.

$1000 Question from Analogies

What is connotation?