Grammar & Language
This expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and predicate.
What is an independent clause?
The author gives hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A well-written thesis (claim statement) will be this.
What is three pronged?
Nonfiction texts can have one or more of these purposes.
What are to persuade, to inform, and to entertain?
Identify the type of figurative language: "Life is a rollercoaster."
What is a metaphor?
This happens when a student retells the story instead of explaining its meaning.
What is summarizing instead of analyzing?
An argumentative text is based on this.
What is an opinion worth defending?
Identify the type of figurative language: "It is raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
This should be the last sentence in your Introduction.
What is a claim or thesis?
Identify the figurative language: "Welcome as a fart in an elevator."
What is simile?
This error occurs when two independent clauses are joined incorrectly with just a comma.
What is a comma splice?
This type of conflict occurs when a character struggles with their own thoughts or feelings.
What is internal conflict?
Your analysis should do this.
What is explain how the quote connects with the thesis statement and the explanation should be longer than the quote itself?
This purpose means the author is trying to convince the reader of something.
What is to persuade?
Identify the figurative language: "Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer."
What is an analogy?
These word parts include beginnings, base meanings, and endings that change or clarify a word’s definition.
What are prefixes, roots, and suffixes?
Name the sections of a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
To complete the TDA, a conclusion paragraph should include these (3) pieces.
What are a restated thesis sentence, a summary of body paragraphs, and a "take away" idea for the reader to keep thinking about after reading?
These are the different structure patterns of an informative text.
What are cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological order, descriptive?
This literary device makes a brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or artistic work of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.
What is allusion?