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First person

A character with his or her opinions

Metaphor

A comparison of two different things without using "like" or "as"

Simile

A comparison of two or more things using "like" or "as"

Audit, dialogue

A comprehensive ______ of several major power companies led to an open ______ between consumers and company executives.

Foreshadowing

A hint beforehand

Idiom

A phrase or expression which means something different from what the words actually say

Malapropism

A silly misuse of words especially through confusion caused by resemblance in sound

Proactive, allegations

A spokesman for the company, in an attempt to be ______, denied _____ of tax fraud before they were made public.

Genre

A type of literature

Character words

Absorbed, easygoing, aggresive

Style words

Abstract, complex, precise

A

Adjectives

A

Adverb

Quickly

Adverb

Elucidated, prospect

After George ____ his plan, the ____ of climbing the mountain became more appealing to me.

Subjects and verbs

Agree

A

Alliteration

Improvise, invidious

Although the actor thought he did an excellent job _____ his lines, he received several ____ reviews the next day.

Superlative, repulsion

Although the movie was called _____ in reviews, some of the more violent scenes prompted ____ in audience members

Disposition, adept

Amy's naturally friendly ____ made her ___ at handling social situations.

Personification

An idea, animal, or object given characteristics of a person

No fragment

And no run-on

Replete, suffused

At the sight of an office ______ with medicines and medical instruments, the young country doctor was ____ with delight.

Syntax words

Balanced sentence, Declarative

Confound, abstain

Because the policies of both candidates ____ Darah, she may _____ from voting in the next election.

Clear

Beginning, middle, and end

Intro

Captures reader's attention

Imposing, reform

Carrie believes that, rather than____ harsh sentences on violators of the law, we should try to ____ criminals and bring them back into society.q

Verb tense is

Consistent

C

Conversation plus

Lucid, specter

Daria was so upset that she could not provide a ______ explanation of her encounter with the ______ in the old mansion

Mood words

Dark, haunting

Aptitude, positing

Darnell, who had a natural _____ for science, enjoyed ______ new theories to the other staff in the department.

Irony

Disdainful,

No

Double negatives

Understatement

Downplaying a situation

E

Emotion

Circumspect, translucent

Even my modest, ____ grandma became as excited as a child when she saw the ____ white silk with which we would make the dress.

Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration

Neutral

Formal, ceremonial, clinical

Anger

Furious, cynical

Negative tone

Furious, fearful

Implement, inhibit

Good animal trainers know that they can ____ rules that will not _____ an animals personality.

Tone words

Harsh, gloomy, dreamy

Positive tone

Hopeful, lighthearted, cheery

Analogous, disenchanted

I hardly think Mary's deep unhappiness with her current job is _______ to the times she has been _____ with a job in the past.

Sustain, prohibit

In order to ____ good working relationships between employees, companies often ____ office romances.

Diction words

Informal/low, slang, conversational

Main topic

Is clear

Adept, formative

Jeff was not _____ at painting because his hand was injured during a ____ period of his life.

Third Person

Know several characters feelings and opinions

M

Metaphor

Affable, invoked

My once-______ and easygoing neighbor now ______ every curse she could think on me.

Pronouncement, infantile

None of my father's ______ on my behavior could prevent my ______tantrums whenever I didn't get what I wanted.

Edict, provocative

One _____ issued by the Church forbade _____ dress among women.

O

Onomatopoeia

Antonym

Opposite word meaning

Oxymoron

Opposite word or phrases put together to form a new phrase

Exacting, agenda

Our boss is so ___ that everything must be perfect before we can move on to a new item on the ______.

P

Personification

Alliteration

Repeating beginning constant sounds

Misinformation, effigy

Rumors and ____ spread by King Paul's enemies finally prompted the crowd to burn a ____ of him in front of the palace.

Sarcasm

Sarcastic, mock-serious

Fear

Scared, concerned

S

Senses

S

Simile

Worry

Stressed, concerned

Conclusion

Sums up writing effectivly

Details and examples

Support main idea

Providential, phototropic

The ____ discovery of a new ____ organism helped researchers, who were doing work on light and biology, make a long desired breakthrough.

Dispel, legacy

The general tried to _____ the sorrows of his troops by praising the _____ of the fallen heroes.

Pun

The humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two more of its meaning

Indict, renounce

The jury felt it necessary to _____ the reporter for refusing to ______ his slanderous remarks.

Retinue, suffuse

The large ____ that followed the rock star could _____ him with a sense of personal strength and importance.

Dissonance, auditory

The noisy city's ____ would create a _____ disturbance for a person with even limited hearing ability.

Dictum, renounce

The rabbi hoped the _____ he cited would convince people to ______ their bad habits.

Second person

The story is told from the perspective of you

Prologue, resonant

The words of the _____ were still _____ in my mind long after the play had ended.

Fantasy

Unreal story

Adverbs

Usually end in ly

V

Vivid words

Colorful

Vocabulary.

Inaudible, recant

Whatever the deputy whispered to the Chief Police was _____ to the audience, but it made the chief ____ his statement and apologize.

Paradox

When ideas conflict but make sense

Relative, delegates

Whether the team succeeds or not is ____ to whether the captain _____ some of his authority or keeps it all to himself.

Humor

Whimsical, amused

Homophone

Words that are pronounced alike but differ in meaning and spelling

Homograph

Words that are spelled alike but have a different meaning, or pronunciation

Homonym

Words that are spelled and pronounced alike but have different meanings

Onomatopoeia

Words which imitate the sounds they stand for

Synonym

Words with nearly the same meaning

Interesting

Writing


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