Writing
Literary Elements
Unit Vocabulary
Grammar
Literature
100
Expository, Narrative, Persuasive, and Descriptive.
What are the four types of writing?
100
An autobiographical account of a former slaves life.
What is a Slave Narrative?
100
To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
What does the word appease mean?
100
Adverb.
What is the part of speech that modifies?
100
The Sky Tree, How the Leopard Got His Claws, How the World Was Made, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano
What are four stories from Unit 1?
200
The Thesis Statement
What is the statement used in your introduction paragraph that summarizes what you are writing about?
200
A writer's choice of words, an important element of the writer's voice or style.
What is diction?
200
A collection of the writings of various authors.
What is an anthology?
200
An adjective.
What is the part of speech that describes a noun?
200
It is about a boy who was kidnapped by slave traders, sold into slavery, and the story tells about the hardships he went through.
What is the Life of Olaudah Equiano about?
300
Five
How many paragraphs are in a formal essay?
300
A figure of speech that compares two things by saying that one is another.
What is a metaphor?
300
To serve as rememberance of.
What does it mean to commemorate something?
300
Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Interjection, Conjunction, Verb, and Preposition.
What are the eight parts of speech?
300
A thundering voice, claws, and teeth.
What did the leopard get in the story?
400
Five to seven sentences.
How many sentences are in each paragraph?
400
When someone or something refers to the set of mental pictures by using sensory details.
What is imagery?
400
To diminish or become less.
What does it mean when something dwindles?
400
A conjunction.
What part of speech is used to connect two parts of a sentence?
400
The Cherokee
What tribe wrote "How the World Was Made?"
500
Three to five sentences.
How many sentences should be in your intoduction paragraph?
500
A nonfiction narrative in which the author tells the story of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
To release from bondage.
What does it mean to emancipate something?
500
But, or, yet, for, and, nor, so.
What are BOYFANS?
500
William Bradford
Who wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation?"
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