Elephants
Where and/or when something takes place
Setting
What do you call the first paragraph of an essay
The introduction
In the sentence: The dog barked at mr. clark. What needs to be corrected?
Mr. Clark needs to be capitalized because it is a name.
Where is the main idea typically located?
In the first paragraph/ first couple sentences
What part of a composition tells what the essay will be about?
Introduction
What is the lesson you learn from a story called?
Theme
What piece of punctuation goes around dialogue?
Quotation Marks
What is a paragraph in a poem?
Stanza
Give me a antonym for the word gigantic.
Little, small, tiny
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
Context Clues
What is short version of the story that includes the important details?
Summary
The term used when the ball rolls into the street and the car runs over it.
Cause and Effect
What is the part of a composition that contains 1 idea in several related sentences?
Paragraph
The narrator is talking directly to the person using pronouns like you and your.
2nd person
Any evidence from a fiction or nonfiction text that can be used to support ideas, arguments, opinions, and thoughts.
Text Evidence
When words like happy and sad have the same meaning
Synonym
A unit of study when we read a book about somebody's life.
Biography
A group of words that mean something else that use like or as?
Simile
This term is a kind of logical guess that we make about elements in the story.
Inferences
The narrator is telling what happens in the story from the outside using pronouns like he, she, they, them.
Third Person
To make your composition better by adding sparkle words, taking out any repetitious sentences, and staying focused.
Revising
What are the three main types of writing?
Narrative, informational, opinion/persuasive
What is the terms used to describe the differences and similarities in characters?
Compare and Contrast
The narrator is a character in the story using pronouns like I, Me or My.
First Person
__________ refers to his or her position on an issue or, in other words, the author's opinion or belief regarding an issue.
Author's Point of View