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• What is the difference between factual report and descriptive text?
  
• Whats the difference between class average and class median?
  
• What is a modifier?
  
• What is the word for repeating sentence structure?
  
• What is the difference between a metaphor and a symbol?
  
• Is the phrase "radiant maiden" consonance or assonance?
  
• When do adjectives come after the noun in English?
  
• What is logical fallacy?
  
• Why do modern poets use sound techniques like alliteration and assonance?
  
• What are epithets? What are several examples of epithets?
  
• What is the definition of "Cliche" in poetry? Do you have to be bizarre, complex, and uncommon to be original and genuine when writing poetry?
  
• There was some sort of mysterious gravity surge in the kitchen. Somehow, that picture ended up in the trash all the way across the room. Is this sentence an example of verbal irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, or understatement?
  
• What are some modern day aphorisms about our time (like about our technology and stuff)?
  
• How do you write an aphorism?
  
• What does it mean to have negative tone and negative diction vs. having positive tone and positive diction?
  
• Is this sentence an example of pathetic fallacy: "The rain pattered dismally."?
  
• We drove without a break the entire way to the beach. Which word does the prepositional phrase "without a break" modify?
  
• How do you use verisimilitude in a sentence?
  
• What is an example of an exposition?
  
• Chaucer’s characterizations of the Prioress, the Monk, and others connected with the Church are mainly what?
  
• What literary device does this sentence use: "The walls were beating like a heart on steroids."?
  
• What is intrusion of solitude?
  
• What is the purpose of a caesura in poetry?
  
• What figure of speech uses repeating consonants to make sound effects?
  
• How can the word "disdainful" be used in a sentence?
  
• How does punctuation affect intonation?
  
• What is the past tense for "be"?
  
• Does a compound word have to be a noun, or can it be an adjective?
  
• Are other character's thoughts about a character a form of indirect characterization? What about the character's own thoughts?
  
• What are 5 examples of a paradox?
  
• How many semicolons can you use in a row?
  
• Why are you not supposed to split the infinitive of a verb, for example: "To boldly go" should be "to go boldly." Why?
  
• What is the purpose of juxtaposition in English?
  
• The car pulled up to Peter, John, and Mary's house to pick them up for the theater. What is the pronoun case you would need to replace "Peter, John, and Mary"?
  
• What are illustrations of concrete language and abstract language?
  
• Can you help with replacing personal pronouns in a sentence? I'm writing an essay for school.
  
• What is a common noun?
  
• Is it an understatement to call someone that thinks that you are his/her friend an acquaintance?
  
• Is "year" an adjective or a noun? How can you tell?
  
• Is eagle a proper noun?