Writing
Text Structures and Features
ELA
Random
100

What is the first paragraph of an essay called?

Introduction

100

What are the five text structures?

Problem/Solution 

Cause and effect

Compare and Contrast

Chronological

Descriptive/description

100

Based on the prefix micro- and the root scope, this is what a microscope is used to observe

 What are objects that are smaller than the eye can see?

200

What punctuation belongs around words that are spoken?

Use the school term, not "talking marks"

Quotations

200

What is the text structure for the passage below:

It is important to know what to do in a hurricane.  First, you should make sure that your family and house are protected.  Next, you need to make sure you have the neccessary supplies like flashlights, water, and so on.Finally you should listen carefully to the news and weather reports for the latest updates.  Those are the steps for preparing for a hurricane.

Chronological

200

This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”

What is a Simile?

200

What is an inference?

prediction, informed guess 

300

What is included in a writing plan?

Intro

Topic 1         details a, b

Topic 2         details a, b

Topic 3         details a, b

Conclusion

300

What text feature describes a picture?

a caption

300

This is the part of speech that functions as a connector between two sentences, clauses, phrases, or words 

What is a conjunction?

300

What is a theme?

The moral or lesson learned from a story

400

How many paragraphs are in an essay?

five

400

What genre are most text features found in and why?

Non-fiction, to give additional information to help the reader understand more clearly what the passage is about.

400

This is the suffix of the words Outage, Salvage, Drainage and Marriage

What is -age

400

What is an apostrophe

shows possession and identifies how a person speaks eliminating certain sounds in a word, creating a contraction

500

What is a "prompt"?

Topic you are asked to write about

500

What text structure uses the words:

issue

delima

solve

challenge

outcome

Problem/solution

500

This is what you call a story you write about your own life. 

What is an Autobiography

500

What describes a verb

adverb

600

What should be included in an introduction?

Prompt, 3 reasons, hook

600

What text structure is mostly used in history?

Chronological

600

This is being compared in the following metaphor:

Time is money

What is time and money?

700

What is included in a conclusion?

Topic, 3 reasons, summary and /or po3werful statement

700

What text feature shows a small passage placed inside the story, giving related information?

Sidebar

700

This is a word that is used to describe a person, place, thing, or idea

What is an adjective?

800

What is the step after writing your conclusion (your essay is complete)?

Edit

800

What text structure uses the words:

difference

similiar

both

one

Compare and Contrast

800

This is what we call a short statement of the main points of a story.

What is a Summary?

800

What are 2 words that sound the same but have different meanings

homonyms

homophones

900

What is the first sentence of each body paragraph start with (after you indent, what do you write)?

Transition Word

900

What text feature lists what's in the text in abc order in the back of a text

index

900

The order in which things begin and end using words like First, next, then, finally.

What is sequence of events

1000

True or False

When writing a text based essay, you should not write about what was read, you need to write yo9ur opinion and connections to the text ONLY.

False

Text-based means MOST of what you write about should come from the text either paraphrasing or by directly quoting the passage!

1000

What structure uses the key words:

because

as a result

Cause and Effect

1000

When an object or animal is given human characteristics

Personification

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