Writing Terminologies
The peak or most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
A punctuation mark that indicates possession.
What is an apostrophe?
The main protagonist in The Giver.
Who is Jonas?
The secret police under Hitler.
What are the Gestapo?
The hate or dislike of a group of people.
What is prejudice?
The first sentence in an essay.
What is the hook?
The person, place or thing that the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
A red sled down a hill of snow.
What is a memory the Giver gave Jonas?
Hitler was this kind of ruler.
What is a dictator?
Overgeneralized terms applied to groups or populations of people.
What are stereotypes?
The sentence that declares the point to your essay.
What is the thesis?
The part of a sentence with a verb that says what the subject is doing.
What is the predicate?
To be euthanized by injection.
What is release?
Were told to report their parents and teachers as Jews or sympathizers.
What are Hitler Youth?
The unfair treatment of a group of people.
What is discrimination?
The beginning of a story that establishes setting, characters, or background information.
What is exposition?
The acronym that represents the different types of conjunctions.
What are FANBOYS?
Used memories to calm him down.
What did Jonas give Gabe?
Lies and fake information made by the government.
What is propaganda?
A hate against people from different places.
What is xenophobia?
The paragraph in an essay that summarizes all prior paragraphs.
What is the conclusion?
A sentence with a subject and a predicate but cannot stand on its one.
What is a dependent clause?
The age children get assigned their jobs.
What are Twelves?
Words, ideas, books were forbidden.
What is censorship?
The discrimination or unfair treatment of people who are poor.
What is classism?