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What is a compound sentence with a semi-colon

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2 independent clauses with a semi-colon between them

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What is a complex sentence beginning with dependent clause

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Dependent clause starting with (since, because, while) a comma the. A independent clause

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What is a complex sentence beginning with independent

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Independent clauses, no comma, followed by dependent clause

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What is a compound-complex sentence beginning with dependent clause?

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Dependent clause, comma, independent clause, comma, independent clause

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What is a compound-complex sentence beginning with a independent clause

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Independent clause, dependent clause, comma, independent clause

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What is a simile

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A figure of speech in which two things are compared with LIKE or AS

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Give an example of a simile

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She is like a rose

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What is a metaphor

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It is suggesting a resemblance saying one thing is another but not being literal

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What is an example of a metaphor

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A mighty fortress is our God

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What is a personification

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The attribution of human nature or characters to animals, objects or abstracts notations OBJECTS TO HUMANS

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Give an example of a personification

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The leaves dance in the wind

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What is hyperbole

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Exaggeration used to make a point

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Give an example of hyperbole

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I’m so hungry I could eat a whole horse

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What is a rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhymes at the end of each poem or song

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What is an example of a rhyme scheme

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Beneath the trees, I dance in the breeze

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What is an alliteration

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2 or more stressed syllables of a word group, of the same sound

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What is an example of a alliteration

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Stem, stern

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What is an assonance

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Repetition of the sound of a vowel resemblance of sounds

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What is an example of a assonance

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Tune, June

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What is an onomatopoeia

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Form of a word by its sound

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What is an example of a onomatopoeia

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Meow, honk, boom

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What is theme

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Overall idea of the story

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What is mood?

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How the character feels

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What is tone

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How the text sounds overall and how it’s written

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What is authors purpose

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Reason why the author wrote the text, the purpose

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What is foreshadowing

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Hint of what is happening in the future

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What is flashback

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A character thinks back to a previous event

28
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What is a genre

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Type of literature, music, art, writing

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What is irony

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To convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning

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What is point of view

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To know which characters are tells g the story

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What is symbol

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Something that is used to resemble Nd represent something else

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What is narrator

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Who is telling the story

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What is unreliable narrator

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Narrator that can’t be trusted. Is biased, males mistakes, or lies in the literature

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Difference between affect/effect

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Affect-verb, something the cause of something

Effect-noun, something that came about from a problem

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What is a compound sentence with a comma and coordinating conjunction

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2 independent clauses with a or, but, and, so