12 Powerful Words
To list in steps
Trace
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
The time and location a story takes place
Setting
comparing two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
What writing strategy do we use to decode a writing prompt?
Do/What Strategy
To break apart
Analyze
Shows action
Verb
The people or animals in a story
Characters
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
This type of writing tells us about a person, place, thing, or idea using facts
Informative
Read between the lines
Infer
Describes a noun
Adjective
Double Jeopardy!!
The important events in a story
Plot
Triple Jeopardy!!
An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Triple Jeopardy!!
This type of writing tells a story and has characters and a setting
Narrative
Double Jeopardy!
To tell us about
Describe
Triple Jeopardy!!
Describes a verb
Adverb
Triple Jeopardy!!
Where the main character faces a series of problems leading to the climax
Rising Action
Giving human like traits to non human things
Personification
This type of writing tries to convince others by giving readers examples of facts
Argumentative
All the way things are alike
Compare
Quadruple Jeopardy!!
What is the verb in the following sentence:
She watched the movie alone.
Watched
Events leading to the end of the story
Falling action
Double Jeopardy!!
A sound written out as a word
Onomatopeia
This writing strategy is used for Informative Writing
RACE Strategy