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1.
Run- on = Run-on sentences join two or more complete sentences
with no punctuation. (Ex: Michaela loves to draw horses she is a talented
artist.)
2. Fragments = Incomplete sentences, pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause. One of the easiest ways to correct them is to remove the period between the fragment and the main clause. (Ex: Purdue offers many majors in engineering. Such as electrical, chemical, and industrial engineering.)
3. Modifiers = Describes, clarifies,
or gives more detail. (Ex: We rowed the boat vigorously.
We vigorously rowed the boat. Vigorously
we rowed the boat.)
4. Agreement = Using singular nouns with singular verbs and using plural nouns with plural verbs. (Ex: The news is good today! The police are coming!)
5. Parallel Structure = using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. (Ex: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.)
6. Review Punctuation!
Literary Terms
1. Alliteration = repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. (Ex: sweet smell of success)
2.
Allusion = brief
reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art.
3.
Antagonist =
the �villain� of a book or movie. (Ex: The Green Goblin in Spider-Man)
4.
Aside =
character speaks to another
character, without any other characters aware of what is said.
5.
Comic relief =
character in a book who can only say disrespectful things and not get killed for
it because he is funny.
6.
Extended Metaphor =
metaphor
that continues into the following sentences and developed at great length,
occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
7.
Foil =
character who is either one who is
opposite to the
main
character or nearly the same as the main character. The purpose of
the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast,
and perhaps by setting up situations in which the protagonist can show his or
her character traits.
8.
Foreshadowing =
hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
9.
Hyperbole =
exaggeration
10.
Iambic Pentameter
= meter
in poetry. It has an unrhymed
line with 5
iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on the second syllable;
(Ex: good-bye)
11.
Imagery =
literary reference to the five
senses.
12.
Metaphor =
indirect
comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects that
typically uses "is a" to join the first subjects (Ex: The moon is a ghostly
galleon)
13.
Onomatopoeia
=
word or a grouping of words
that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, (Ex:
bang, click, buzz, pop) or animal noises (Ex: moo, oink, quack, meow)
14.
Prose =?
15.
Protagonist =
the leading character, hero, or heroine
16.
Simile =
comparison of two unlike things,
typically marked by use of "like", "as" or "than". (Ex: the snow was as thick as
a blanket, she was as smart as a crow)
17.
Soliloquy =
act of talking to oneself, dramatic monologue that represents a series of
unspoken reflections
18.
Tragic Hero =
character who exhibits a
tragic
flaw, which eventually leads to his or her demise or defeat.
Aristotle�s criteria for a Tragic Hero:
1.
19. Verse =
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