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• Can you summarize A Doll's House in 7 bullet points?
• Is there such a thing as second person? We've all heard of first and third person in creative writing, but what is second person?
• Should I write my novel in first, second, or third person?
• What is a verse? For my English class, I have to write a 15 verse poem.
• What is the difference between prose and blank verse?
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• What is an empty sentence? What makes the sentence empty? What are 2 examples of an empty sentence?
• How do you say the expression: "Live your life," in French?
• What is the rhyme scheme for "Still I Rise" by Maya Angleou?
• What is the rhyme scheme for the poem, "The Naming of Cats"?
• How do you write a rhyme scheme poem?
• What are some songs with a rhyme scheme (also called lyrical poetry)?
• What is the rhyme scheme for "If" by Rudyard Kipling?
• How do you find the rhyme scheme of a poem?
• Is it possible to have a rhyme scheme when there are two separate stanzas?
• Is the rhyme scheme "abab" 2 stanzas or 4 stanzas? How do I determine the number of stanzas?
• What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
• "High diddle diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jumped over the moon. The little Dog laughed To see such craft, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon." What is the rhyme scheme?
• What is the rhyming scheme for Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
• What is a rhyme scheme called when the poem only rhymes in the beginning?
• What poem has the rhyme scheme aabb?
• A Haiku contest rule says that the lines that could be used are any of the following rhyme schemes: a-a-a, a-b-a, a-a-b, a-b-b, or a-b-c. What does this mean?
• How do rhyme schemes help poems?
• How do rhyme schemes work?
• How does rhyme scheme add meaning to a poem?
• How does rhyme scheme affect a poem?
• How did Tolkien influence later writers?
• What is indicative mood?
• What is the difference between a mood and a tense? Why is the subjunctive a mood when it has its own verb forms? Why isn't it just another tense?
• What is the aorist subjunctive tense in layman's terms?
• What is the conditional mood of verbs?
• What is the most common mood used in English: indicative mood, imperative mood, or subjunctive mood?
• What is grammatical mood?
• Are there any examples of the subjunctive tense in the English language besides the verb "to be"?
• What is the meaning of "indicative"?
• What's the difference between "I wish I had" and "I wish I would have"?
• What does it mean that "am" is the first person singular present indicative of "be"? What is the definition of "am"?
• Can words be borrowed from “dead” languages?
• Three types of verbals are the gerund, infinitive, and what other type?
• Are Latin, Greek, English, and Balto-Slavic all living, guttural, Indo-European, dead, or Romance languages?
• Are word order and word relationships aspects of semantics, morphology, syntax, or orthography?
• I was told that relative clauses can’t take the subjunctive mood in English. Is that true?
• English pronoun forms show gender and what else?
• Is an example of a borrowed word bride, man, khaki, or knight?
• Is “Ain’t” a word that has undergone the process of specialization, pejoration, amelioration, or generalization?
• Does the Germanic Consonant Shift illustrate linguistic change in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, or spelling?
• I know there is Past, Present, and Future tense in English, but what is Imperfect Tense? How do you form it?
• Where is there an example of subjunctive mood in "Macbeth"?
• What is a finite verb? What does it mean when we say that a verb is limited by person, number, mood and tense?
• When I use the subjunctive mood, should I use the bare infinitive or simple past? For examples, is it correct to say, "I wish I had the opportunity to go with you." Or, "I wish I have the opportunity to go with you."?
• How is the word "doppelganger" pronounced?
• What is a doppelganger in literature?
• What are an epilogue and prologue? Why/when do you include these in your novel?
• What is the difference between preface and prologue?
• What is the difference between a prologue and epilogue? Which one goes at the beginning and which one goes at the end?
• How do you write a good epilogue? Do you think the best epilogues are ones that are a specific event or ones that are a general summing up?
• What is an example of an epilogue?
• What would be a good epilogue for "Lord of the Flies"?
• I know that an epilogue is the story after the story, but what do you call the thing before the story?
• Can a story have an epilogue but not a prologue?
• What do the prefixes "pro", "mono", "epi", and "dia" mean when implemented like prologue, dialogue, monologue, and epilogue?
• If a novel is written in first person, does the epilogue have to be written in first person too?
• How do i write an epilogue for the book, "The Outsiders"?
• How do you pronounce the words "prologue " and "epilogue"?
• What are some ideas for an epilogue for "Of Mice and Men"?
• Can you write an epilogue without writing a prologue?
• Does "Julius Caesar" have a prologue or an epilogue?
• What's the opposite of a prologue or the section at the end of the book?
• What is a Preface? Why are they in books?
• In fiction books, what is the purpose of writing epilogues?
• What is the prologue of a book and how long is it supposed to be? Can it be 1-2 paragraphs long?
• Does "The End" go before or after the epilogue?
• Are a prologue and a preface the same thing? Or is there a distinction?
• If my book has an epilogue, can it have a prologue, too? Is it okay to have both?
• Is it okay to write a prologue for a short story?
• Is it okay if the prologue of my book is actually set after the book ends?
• Can a prologue have a title?
• I want to write the prologue/epilogue in a book I'm writing in third-person narrative. I want my main story to take place before the prologue. Then when it finishes, the epilogue continues where the prologue left off. Can I write it my way?
• In "Call of Duty 4" epilogue, who are the soldiers in the "Mile High Club" mission at the end?
• What is the meaning of Puck's speech at the end of "Midsummer Night's Dream?
• Can you give an example of a book that has an epilogue and a sequel?
• Why is the epilogue of "Eclipse," by Stephanie Meyer, written from Jacob's point of view? If the whole thing is written in Bella's point of view, then why is just the epilogue written from Jacob's view?
• What is the code in the Back of the Dan Brown book "Digital Fortress"? On the last page after the epilogue, there is a code or some numbers that look like a code. What is it? If it is a code, how can I solve it?
• Do the introduction and epilogue of a story count as chapters?
• What is pathetic fallacy?
• Is this a pathetic fallacy: "the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing."?
• Is this an example of pathetic fallacy in "Jane Eyre": "Nature must be gladsome when I was so happy.”?
• Is this sentence an example of pathetic fallacy: "The rain pattered dismally."?
• What is an example of a pathetic fallacy in Act 1 of "Macbeth"?
• Is the following sentence considered as pathetic fallacy: "The sun disappeared and all was cold and grey."?
• Are there any other examples of pathetic fallacy in "Lord of the Flies" other than the storm just as Simon is murdered by the rest of the group?
• What is pathetic fallacy used for and what effect it could have?
• How is pathetic fallacy used in "The Great Gatsby," in the last paragraph of chapter one?
• Are pathetic fallacy and personification the same thing?
• Where in Dickens' "Great Expectations," is pathetic fallacy used? Is it used in the first few opening chapters?
• I know a pathetic fallacy is when the weather represents someone's emotions, but what is the opposite of that?
• How does pathetic fallacy make "Romeo and Juliet" dramatic?
• What is an example of a pathetic fallacy in "A Christmas Carol"?
• What is a simple definition of allegory?
• Are these pathetic fallacy: "Mist creeps; wet wind blows."?
• What is pathetic fallacy used to create?
• Is this an example of pathetic fallacy: "Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again."?
• What is an example of pathetic fallacy for rain or a storm?
• If a film is set at night, is this pathetic fallacy?
• Where is pathetic fallacy used in the novel, "Wuthering Heights"?
• What are some examples of how rain is used as a symbol in literature through short stories or movies or novels?
• Why do authors use pathetic fallacy?
• What is the poetic term called where weather creates an effect on the mood of the poem?
• What is the atmosphere in chapter 5 of "Frankenstein"?
• Is this a metaphor, a simile, or pathetic fallacy: "Silence, emphatic as a thunderclap, followed her request."?
• In a composition, is time of day considered to be pathetic fallacy?
• What are some suggestions on what to write about nature in "Lord of the Flies," for example the sea, fire, weather etc, and how it affects events on the island?
• What is logical fallacy?
• What does the storm signify in "King Lear," Act 3 Scene 2?
• In "Macbeth," Shakespeare used storms to show an incident which occurred with Macbeth. Is this pathetic fallacy?
• What is pathos of fallacies?
• In English, what is the term for the weather reflecting a person's mood?
• In "The Red Badge of Courage," Crane uses descriptions of places and people rather than names, i.e. "The youth" and "loud soldier." What is this technique called?
• What is the term used to show the relationship between a character and the setting of a story?
• What is the difference between a red herring and straw man fallacy?
• How does Dickens use setting to establish character and situation in chapter one of "Great Expectations"?
• How would you compare and contrast Jane Eyre to other mistreated heroines from children's stories (Cinderella, Snow White)?
• How does pathetic fallacy affect the reader?
• How does pathetic fallacy create suspense?
• How do you identify pathetic fallacy?
• What are some examples of pathetic fallacy?
• Why is pathetic fallacy called "pathetic fallacy"? Where did the name come from?
• Why is pathetic fallacy effective?
• Why is pathetic fallacy important?
• Why is pathetic fallacy used in Gothic writing?
• Is the correct adjective form for verisimilitude "verisimilitudinous"? How would I pronounce "verisimilitudinous"?
• Would it be correct use of the word to say, "My dream was verisimilitude."? If not, how would you make it grammatically correct?
• What is cultural verisimilitude and what is generic verisimilitude?
• What details in the preface of the book, "The Screwtape Letters," allow C.S. Lewis to create verisimilitude?
• What is an example of a film or TV show of a particular genre which reflects a change in cultural verisimilitude?
• What role do diction and syntax play in creating a classic work of literature?
• What parallels exist between the social issues of today and those described in “A Tale of Two Cities”?
• What is a famous example of a fictional work that is a complete allegory?
• What are some examples of verisimilitude in "Midnight in Paris" (movie 2011)?
• How is "The Great Gatsby" a story of the West? The story was set in the East, but Nick claims it is a story of the West. Why?
• What is the opposite of verisimilitude, in the sense that nothing seems real?
• How does "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" qualify as romance?
• From what point of view is "Lord of the Flies" written in?
• Do you think, "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connell is reality, or escapist literature?
• What is a word that is defined as something that appears to be one way, but in reality it is another thing?
• What are cinematic conventions?
• What is a sentence with the word "vie" in it?
• How can I use the word "physiognomy" in a sentence, and the sentence must contain context clues?
• How the characters in "Waiting for Godot" made so believable to an audience, considering their exaggerated stupidity and lack of intellect?
• Swift chose to name his essay “A Modest Proposal.” How is it an understatement? How does it help support the main idea of his essay? Is it a good title? Why?
• What is a play that has the characteristics of the three unities (Aristotle)?
• What is an example of transcendentalism in literature? How can you find transcendentalism in a piece of literature?
• What is psychological realism?
• Do the feelings associated with a story's place that affect the characters and how they lead their lives constitute the story's atmosphere, point of view, verisimilitude, or contrast?
• What are some examples of symbolism in the movie, "Rear Window"?
• What are Shakespeare's five great tragedies?
• What are the main differences between theatricalism and realism?
• What literary movement did Edgar Lee Masters contribute too?
• "Nothing is true; everything is permitted." What does this really mean?
• What is the definition of a myth and a legend?
• From what sources could I find the modern versions of folklore?
• How long does a novel or novella have to be?
• What kind of book is "Black Beauty"? Is it fiction or fable or what?
• Is there a word that defines the lack of authenticity behind an idea of truth?
• What philosophy puts discovery of the universe and science as the meaning of life?
• Why is verisimilitude important?
• What are negative connotations?
• What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
• What are political connotations?
• What would the connotation of 'slaughtering' animals be?
• What does it mean for word to have female connotations?
• What are the connotations of a tree?
• What does pejorative connotation mean?
• Does the word "precocious" have a good or a bad connotation?
• What is the denotation and the connotation of "pretty" and of "cool"?
• What are some of the connotations of power?
• Of the three automobiles left on the lot, one was inexpensive, one was cheap, and one was economical. Which word describes the automobile that represents a prudent purchase?
• What connotation does a unicorn have?
• Which of the following is a connotation of the word hunter in “The Most Dangerous Game”: survivor, murderer, or a person who hunts?
• What are five words with extremely negative emotional connotations in our society right now?
• Which word has the most positive connotation: comply, embrace, complete, or cling?
• Which word has the most neutral connotation: touchy, responsive, tender, or volatile?
• What are the connotations of the word "Raven"?
• Is connotation subjective or objective?
• What is the connotative difference between and "Lady" and a "Woman"?
• Does the word "roam" have any religious connotations to it?
• Which of the following words has a positive connotation: Odor, Smell, Stench, or Aroma?
• Is the word "deference" a positive, negative, or neutral connotation? Why do you think so?
• Which word has a negative connotation: standpoint, bias, view, or perspective?
• Which sentences uses the most positive connotation: The beach was calm; The beach was serene; The beach was quiet; or The beach was still?
• Why does the word "bureaucracy" have a negative connotation?
• What is the denotation and connotation of the word "storm"?
• What is the connotation of disappearance?
• What is the correct verb from the noun connotation?
• How does connotation and denotation affect an author's purpose?
• Is the word "scrupulous" a positive, negative, or neutral connotation? Why do you think so?
• Which is a positive connotation of the word "inactive"?
• Is the connotation of the word "scheme" positive or negative?
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• What can dialogue and internal thoughts often tell the reader?
• I am writing a "short story" for english. If I am saying a girl got home from trick-or-treat, was tired, and fell asleep, how do I transition into her dream?
• What does it mean to refer to the "voice" in a piece of literature?
• Is it correct to say that historical fiction can not occur in the present?
• Why would you use synonyms in your writing?
• In a Christmas Carol, why did the first spirit visit Scrooge?
• How are dynamic characters different from static characters?
• How should you fill in the blank in the following sentence? "The children are playing #ul(color(white)("xxxxxxx"))# the park".
• A haiku has how many lines?
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• If a story is told by a character in the story, from which point of view is it written?
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• Does this paragraph need any changes and are there any errors?
• When writing dialogue, with what type of speech would you be most likely to use slang?
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• What is the role of diction in writing?
• What are some good ways of improving poetry analysis?
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