summarizing
Every summary needs one of these; found at the beginning of a paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
This suffix means state, quality, act
What is ion or ity?
This common shape is used as a metaphor for planning any piece of writing.
What is an hour glass?
This location is believed to be the cradle of civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
If the pronunciation of a word sounds like the sound it makes it is known as this literary devices.
What is onomatopoeia?
The topic sentence of a summary is best explained using a metaphor of this object?
What is an umbrella?
This root is another word for "middle"
What is "meso?"
"Firm Position" is another expression for this important element in a piece of argument writing.
What is a thesis statement?
What is a controlling idea?
The big transition from Paleolithic to the Neolithic age was largely due to this activity by Stone-Agers.
What is developing permanent shelters?
What is farming?
This is the distinguishing difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is a metaphor uses is or was and a simile uses like or as?
What is the author's organizational pattern?
This kind of scientist would use these roots:
geo
therm
chron/o
meter
What is a geologist?
What is a vulcanologist?
This part of a well-written piece of writing should leave the reader with something to think about.
What is a satisfying ending?
What is the conclusion?
This river was important in the culture and economy of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Two literary terms define the following examples.
A writer uses the word 'cold' to describe the temperature outside.
A writer uses the word 'cold' to describe tension in a relationship.
What are denotation and connotation?
This illegal action is something to avoid like the plague when writing a summary.
What is plagiarism?
These two root words have opposite meanings:
"one" and "many"
What is "mono" and "poly?"
These four actions are used by writers in the revision process.
What are changing, adding, moving, and deleting?
In Egypt's social pyramid men could rise to a higher social status by doing this.
What is becoming a scribe?
What is dramatic irony?
When writing a summary, your goal is to give this accurate overview of the main ideas, also known as...
What is the gist?
the literal meaning of this made-up word andropathic
andro path ic
What is "related to the feelings of a male?"
These three modes of writing are part of the main CCSS expectations for Aspire writers.
What are narrative, expository, and argument?
These seven characteristics determine whether or not a group of people is qualified to be considered a civilization
What is:
stable food supply
social structure
system of government
religious system
highly developed culture
technology and
writing?
A blogger writing to explain a difficult concept using the example of different aspects of a space flight would be employing this literary device.
What is analogy?