Academic Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Argumentative Writing
Memoir Genre
Potpouri
100
When you show the similarities between two or more things.
What is compare?
100
Comparing two or more things using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
100
O.R.E.O.
What is opinion, reasoning, evidence, and opposition?
100
Genre is a fancy word for this word.
What is category?
100
A story that is not true.
What is fiction?
200
To completely understand something.
What is comprehend?
200
Comparing two or more things NOT using "like" or "as" but saying something IS or WAS the other thing.
What is a metaphor?
200
Words that help your writing flow and guide the reader.
What are transition words?
200
A memoir is told from this point of view.
What is first person?
200
The main parts/paragraphs of an essay.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion?
300
The good guy or hero of the story.
What is protagonist?
300
Words that represent sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This part of writing tells the reader your topic, claim, and three reasons. It is the last sentence in the introduction paragraph.
What is the thesis statement?
300
A memoir focuses on a significant memory between you and one or more of these.
What is a person, place, or thing?
300
Thinking about your thinking.
What is metacognition?
400
To make an educated guess based on the clues.
What is inference?
400
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
To grab your reader's attention from the first sentence of your essay and make them want to keep reading.
What is the hook?
400
A conversation between two or more people is known as this.
What is dialogue?
400
Your background information, what you already know.
What is schema?
500
A hint or clue in the story that something will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Giving something not alive, human or living qualitites.
What is personification?
500
This part of the introduction paragraph gives background information on the topic.
What is the bridge?
500
The bad guy, villain, or character that tries to hold back the action.
What is the antagonist?
500
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
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