Grammar & Language
The pronoun has to match this for number and gender
What is antecedent?
A character whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of the main character (make them look good).
What is a foil?
This draws in your reader.
What is a hook?
Identify the type of figurative language: "When we heard that there was an earthquake in California, we offered the citizens a hand immediately."
What is a metaphor?
Link words, phrases, or ideas
What is a conjunction?
The overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text.
What is theme?
One of the main ways students lose focus points on their TDA is by not looking for this.
What is a second question within the prompt?
An argumentative text is based on this.
What is an opinion?
Identify the type of figurative language: "My grandma used to say her joints hurt when it was raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
A sentence with an independent clause + a dependent clause is called this.
What is a complex sentence?
Written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
Each body paragraph should follow this order.
What are topic sentence, evidence, and explanation?
Titles or heading within an informational text
What are subheadings?
Identify the figurative language: "The hot chocolate warmed Zoe up like a fluffy blanket."
What is simile?
Words that describe the position of something in time or space
What are prepositions or prepositional phrases?
A two-dimensional character, only one or two personality traits
What is a flat character?
Graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases, background paragraphs
What are text features?
Identify the figurative language: "Your budget? Think about it this way: You will more likely get to your vacation destination if you draw a map and stick to it. Same with your money goals."
What is an analogy?
Name the sections of a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution ?
To complete the TDA, a conclusion paragraph should include these pieces.
What are restated thesis, restated main points, and a "so what?' statement?
Cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological order, compare and contrast , and descriptive or process
What are text structures?
Identify the figurative language: "The lifeguard warned the little boys at the beach not to go into the riptide, or they could end up in Davey Jones's locker!"
What is allusion?