Write an original sentence that uses a dash to set off a summary statement.

1. First English essayist - Francis Bacon

2. The first American novel - The Power of Sympathy

3. A direct comparison - metaphor

4. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms - thesaurus

5. America's first great playwright - Eugene O'Neill

6. Use of exaggerated language - hyperbole

7. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

8. The two young lovers of Our Town - Emily and George

9. Giving inanimate objects human characteristics - personification

10. To town immediately - prepositional phrase

11. The audience's guide of Our Town - stage manager

12. Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens

13. Comparison of two unlike things using as or like - simile

14. To leave immediately - infinitive phrase

15. Reader's Digest - anthology magazine

Explanation:

Here, you were given many different terms and names related to English/American grammar and literature.

Several important names are mentioned here. Francis Bacon is considered to be the first English essayist. Eugene O'Neill is the first American great playwright. Nathanial Hawthorne was an important American novelist and short story writer. He wrote The Scarlet Letter. Mark Twain was also an important American writer, and his real name was Samuel Clemens.

The first American novel is called The Power of Sympathy, and Reader's Digest is an American anthology magazine.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder. Emily and George are two young lovers that appear in it, and the one who guides the audience through the place is the stage manager.

A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (words that have the same meanings and words that have the opposite meanings) is called a thesaurus.

The metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole are examples of figures of speech.

To town immediately is a prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases are groups of words that consists of a preposition, its object, and words that modify the object.

To leave immediately is an infinitive phrase. Infinitive phrases are groups of words that consist of the infinitive form of a verb and any complements and modifiers.