A reference/source with a specific written format (usually MLA or APA) that belongs on a Works Cited page
What is a bibliography?
100
Your daily writing assignment. Usually completed at the very beginning of class
What is a journal?
100
Placed in the introduction section of your paper in order to gain the reader's interest
What is an attention grabber?
100
A literary device that makes a comparison between two unlike objects using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
a literary device that makes a comparison between two unlike objects without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
last page of your essay that contains an alphabetical list of all sources used within an essay
What is a Works Cited page?
200
A document that you must sign when you arrive to class after the bell has rang
What is a tardy sheet?
200
You look over your work and make changes to the ideas, details, sentence structure, and order.
What is revision?
200
deatils that create a mental picture when read by appealing to your five senses
What is imagery?
200
when a word, phrase, or line is repeated in order to emphasize a certain point
What is repetition?
300
An argument purposefully placed in a paper that goes against the author's point
What is a counterargument?
300
It is used to document that you have permission to leave the classroom and go to another destination.
What is a hall pass?
300
You look over your paper and make changes to spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc.
What is editing?
300
an exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
300
a reference made in a passage that the author expects readers to be familiar with
What is an allusion?
400
References used as evidence to support ideas in writing
What are sources?
400
You grab these things (folder, notebooks, handouts, etc.) when you firts enter the classroom.
What are class materials?
400
Information pulled from a passage and used to support your ideas
(Hint: Must be included in order to score well on a short-asnwer question)
What is textual evidence?
400
when an nonhuman object is given human characteristics
What is personification?
400
the reader's feelings
What is mood?
500
documentation of a reference being used within the essay in order to give credit to the source
What is an in-text citation?
500
This important assignment plays a huge role in whether or not you successfully complete the course.
(Hint: If left incomplete, you will retake the course and still do the assignment.)
What is the research paper/PBA?
500
The most important sentence in your essay. The point (promise) to the reader.
What is a thesis statement?
500
This words means to study the parts in relation to the whole
What is analyze?
500
a message (gathered from clues in a story) about people, life, and the world