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A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work

A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words

Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry

This faulty type of sentence is classified as either a comma splice or a fused sentence

"Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later

Another term for upper case characters such as the ones that start a sentence

The organization of events or storylines in a tale, as in Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift"

Latin for "thus", it would precede (& possibly follow) the paleontologist's motto "Semper Tyrannosaurus"

Meter for blank verse & 5 disposable pens

There are 2 of these phrases in the sentence "Santa enjoys dining out but the lady of the house likes to eat in"