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Writing Responses
Miscellaneous
Fiction
Poetry & Language
100

A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.

What is a supporting detail?

100
You should do this to write your first sentence for a short answer response.
What is "steal from the question"?.
100
A word that means the opposite of another word.

What is an antonym?

100

The universal message or lesson of the story.

What is theme?

100
The opposite of Figurative Language.
What is Literal Language (or What is literal)?.
200
The non-fiction text structure where information is arranged in time order.
What is chronological (or sequence) text structure?
200
Words that link ideas together to help the reader  follow the flow of ideas in a text.
What are transition words?.
200

Using text clues and logic to "figure out" events that are not clearly spelled out in a text.

What is inferring (or making an inference)?
200

The highest point of interest in a story, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.

What is climax?

200
The  use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Another word for  "central idea" or "theme" of a text
What is the main idea?
300
Supporting details from the text such as quotes, descriptions, data, or facts that are used as "proof" in a written answer.
What is text evidence (or just "evidence").?
300

A form of writing that is intended to try to influence someone's opinion or convince them to do something.

What is persuasive writing?

300

Every story has this - it wouldn't be a story without it.

What is "a problem" or "a conflict"?

300

Note:  this is a 2 part response.  The question must be worded in the correct order to be counted as correct.

"The first term is a comparison using "like" or "as", and the second term is a comparison stating that one thing  "is" another thing."

What is a simile and a metaphor?  (In that order!)
400
The three main purposes for which writers write.
What are "to entertain, to inform, and to persuade"?

("to express" can be accepted as a fourth reason)

400

The final paragraph or sentence in an essay that re-states the main idea and wraps up the piece.

What is the conclusion?
400
Two components of setting.

What are the time period and location in which a story occurs?

("Social Context" can be accepted as one component as well.)

400
Events that build up the conflict and increase the tension in a story.
What are rising action events?
400
A row of text (in poetry).
What is a line?
500

A text structure that gives reasons and explanations for an event or phenomenon.

What is "Cause and Effect" text structure?

500

A clear statement of the writer's belief or opinion which needs to be supported by evidence.  It is often the first sentence in an essay.

What is claim/thesis/topic sentence?

500
The acronym for these 7 conjunctions is FANBOYS.
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
500

This is the main type of conflict found in the story of the sinking of the Titanic.

Give an example of "Conflict against Nature" or "Man against Nature".

500
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification?
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