Definition: evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way
What is Compelling?
A verbal that looks like a verb but functions as a noun and ends in -ing.
Example: Swimming is a fun past time.
What is a gerund?
Definition: the art of using language effectively and persuasively in speaking or writing
What is rhetoric?
What are the five types of verb mood?
What is indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive and conditional ?
What three things are needed in a body paragraph besides the topic and concluding sentence and lead in?
What is evidence, inference, analysis?
Definition: a person or thing that causes an event.
What is a catalyst?
The feeling that a reader gets from a piece of writing.
What is mood ?
Writing in the margins, circling of unknown words, and the highlighting of facts that will be used to understand a text.
The word BECAUSE is known as this.
Definition: obtain something from (a specified source); come from
What is derive?
A word has this when it creates a feeling beyond the defintion
What is connotation?
The most exciting part of a story, where the conflict comes to a turning point.
What is the Climax?
Before I went to the store, I had to get my shoes on, and my mom gave me a list.
Definition? having the capacity to change when your circumstances change
What is adaptable?
To identify the meaning of an unknown word in a text, one must use this
What are context clues?