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Question 1

What is a topic sentence?

Answer 1

It’s the first sentence in a paragraph that tells what the paragraph will be about.

Question 2

What is a concluding sentence?

Answer 2

It’s the last sentence in a paragraph that sums up what you just read.

Question 3

What are transitions and why are they important?

Answer 3

Transitions are words or phrases that help ideas flow smoothly from one to another.

Question 4

What is a three-prong thesis statement?

Answer 4

A sentence that gives your main point and 3 reasons that support it.

Question 5

What is parallel structure?

Answer 5

It’s when you use the same grammatical pattern for related ideas in a sentence.

Question 6

What does SEA stand for?

Answer 6

Statement, Evidence, Analysis – used to organize body paragraphs.

Question 7

What is an embedded citation?

Answer 7

A quote placed smoothly into your sentence with credit (Author page#) – MLA style.

Question 8

How do you know if a source is credible?

Answer 8

Look at the date, author, and if it ends in .org, .gov, or .edu.

Question 9

What is plagiarism?

Answer 9

Copying someone’s work without giving them credit.

Question 10

What is paraphrasing?

Answer 10

Rewriting information in your own words.

Question 11

What is summarizing?

Answer 11

Giving the main points of something in a short version.

Question 12

What does a good body paragraph include?

Answer 12

Topic sentence, evidence (quote), and analysis (explanation).

Question 13

What does SEA method help with?

Answer 13

Organizing your ideas and making your paragraph strong and clear.

Question 14

Why is citing evidence important?

Answer 14

It proves your points and avoids plagiarism.

Question 15

What is iambic pentameter?

Answer 15

A line with 10 syllables – unstressed followed by stressed syllables.

Question 16

What is alliteration?

Answer 16

Repeating the same starting sound (Ex: ‘Big blue balloon’).

Question 17

What is consonance?

Answer 17

Repeating the same consonant sounds at the end or middle of words.

Question 18

What is assonance?

Answer 18

Repeating vowel sounds (Ex: ‘Pain, rain, Spain’).

Question 19

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 19

A word that sounds like its meaning (Ex: Boom, crash).

Question 20

What is repetition?

Answer 20

Repeating words for effect.

Question 21

What is rhyme?

Answer 21

Words that sound the same at the end.

Question 22

What is a simile?

Answer 22

Comparing using ‘like’ or ‘as’ (Ex: Fast as a cheetah).

Question 23

What is a metaphor?

Answer 23

A direct comparison without ‘like’ or ‘as’ (Ex: Time is money).

Question 24

What is personification?

Answer 24

Giving human traits to non-human things (Ex: The wind whispered).

Question 25

What is hyperbole?

Answer 25

An extreme exaggeration (Ex: I could eat a horse!).

Question 26

What is an allusion?

Answer 26

A reference to something well-known (Ex: He’s a real Romeo!).

Question 27

What is syntax?

Answer 27

The way words are arranged in a sentence.

Question 28

What is a quatrain?

Answer 28

A stanza (group of lines) with four lines.

Question 29

What is a couplet?

Answer 29

Two lines that rhyme and are next to each other.

Question 30

What is a volta?

Answer 30

A shift in tone or argument in a sonnet.

Question 31

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 31

Two opposite words used together (Ex: Jumbo shrimp).

Question 32

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 32

When the audience knows something the characters don’t.

Question 33

What is verbal irony?

Answer 33

When someone says the opposite of what they mean.

Question 34

What is situational irony?

Answer 34

When the opposite of what you expect happens.

Question 35

What is imagery?

Answer 35

Descriptive language that appeals to your senses.

Question 36

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 36

Hints about what will happen later.

Question 37

What is comic relief?

Answer 37

A funny part to break up a serious scene.

Question 38

What is a character foil?

Answer 38

A character who contrasts with another to highlight traits.

Question 39

What is an aside?

Answer 39

A short comment a character says to the audience (other characters don’t hear it).

Question 40

What is a soliloquy?

Answer 40

A long speech by one character alone on stage.

Question 41

What is a pun?

Answer 41

A funny play on words.

Question 42

What is a paradox?

Answer 42

A statement that seems to contradict itself but is true (Ex: 'I must be cruel to be kind').