GENRES
- provides factual information
What is an informational text?
- words that show action or a state of being
What are verbs?
- author's intention for writing a text
What is author's purpose?
- a group of words that contain a subject and a predicate
What is a clause?
- number of sentences usually found in the prompt
What is three?
- may be divided into acts, which are in turn divided into scenes
What is a drama/play?
- words that describe nouns or pronouns
What are adjectives?
- unifying element of a piece of text
What is the main/central idea?
- a sentence that has one main clause
What is a simple sentence?
- four words that usually begin the second sentence of the prompt
What is - Write an essay analyzing . . . ?
- usually develops one major conflict
What is a short story?
- words that join two or more words, phrases, or clauses
What are conjunctions?
- narrator's perspective from which the events are depicted
What is point of view?
- a sentence that has at least two main clauses and one subordinate clause
What is a compound-complex sentence?
- number of reading elements needed in a TDA response
What is two?
- presents a claim or position on an issue
What is an argument?
- words that describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
What are adverbs?
- category used to classify literary/informational works
What is genre?
- a sentence that has two main clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction
What is a compound sentence?
- the last sentence in the first paragraph of a TDA response
What is thesis statement?
- uses rhetorical devices to achieve specific purposes
What is a speech?
- words that show emotion
What are interjections?
- language written to create a special effect
What is figurative language?
- a sentence that has a main clause and a subordinate clause
What is a complex sentence?
- number of paragraphs that should be in a TDA response
What is 3, 4, or 5?