First-hand accounts such as speeches, letters, diaries, and eyewitness accounts.
What are primary resources?
100
The letters: P I E stand for this.
What is Persuade, Inform, or Entertain?
100
A true statement that can be proven by observation, statistics, or research.
What is a fact.
100
This is writing that is meant to be true or factual. Examples include biography and autobiography.
What is nonfiction?
100
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
200
These present material second hand such as magazines, encyclopedias, and newspapers.
What secondary resources?
200
Who the author is writing for.
What is audience?
200
A judgement or viewpoint about a person, place, event, or idea.
What is an opinion?
200
This is narrative writing, which means telling a story. Examples include novels and short stories.
What is fiction?
200
The main character in a story or play. (Batman)
What is the protagonist?
300
The most commonly used research tool today.
What is the Internet?
300
The feeling a reader gets when reading a passage or book.
What is mood?
300
A statement of reasons for or against something.
What is an argument?
300
This is literature written in lines and stanzas. Examples include epic, lyric, Haiku, sonnet, and free verse.
What is poetry?
300
An opponent or rival of the hero. (The Joker in Batman)
What is the antagonist?
400
When researching, you do not want this to be too broad or too narrow.
What is the topic?
400
The author's feelings towards a topic.
What is tone?
400
The controlling idea of a passage.
What is the main idea?
400
This is a story told in action and dialogue between actors who perform as characters.
What is drama?
400
Conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
500
This is copying directly from a source and is a serious offense.
What is plagiarism?
500
Writing that presents only one side of the story; opinions.
What is bias?
500
Rewriting something in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
500
Farce is an exaggerated form of this. The pace is endlessly frantic, and it is crammed with satirical humor; played out through physical missteps and verbal miscues. Examples include The Three Stooges.
What is comedy?
500
"Paarrk yah caarr in da yaarrd." is an example of this.