Poetry
The repeating of a word, a phrase, or an idea for emphasis or for rhythmic effect
What is repetition
Starts with a capital letter, ends with a period, has a subject and predicate, and expresses one complete thought.
What is a complete sentence?
Like a moth to the flame is an example of
What is simile
Use your prior knowledge on the subject and information gained in your reading to draw an conclusion.
What is inference
What an essay is arguing.
What is claim?
Giving animals or objects human qualities
What is personification
What does the word misunderstood mean based off how it was used in this sentence.
Because Dylan misunderstood the directions, he completed the assignment incorrectly.
What is did not understand?
The overall message or lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the story.
What is the theme?
Small chunks of the text that back up the main idea.
What are key details?
Two sentences where you explain how your text evidence supports your essay's topic.
What is commentary?
The church was decorated with a million flowers. I ate so much at Thanksgiving, I must weigh more than a whale. We waited for centuries for the latest game to be released. Are all examples of what?
What is hyperbole
The person, place, or thing performing the action in a sentence.
What is the subject?
the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing
Jenna loves to talk on the phone. She calls everyone she knows every day after school. Her bedroom has pink wallpaper. Jenna's father told her that the phone bill is getting too expensive. Jenna is now only allowed to call 2 friends each night.
What detail from the passage does not support the main idea of the passage?
What is Jenna's wallpaper is pink.
This is used to back up an argument.
What is evidence?
This is an example of what?
The classroom was a zoo.
What is metaphor?
What are all 7 FANBOYS?
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So?
The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play or narrative poem
What is plot
Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways. For example, they are perfect experimental animals and are used for scientific research in the laboratory. Breeding them is easy, for they thrive under almost any conditions. In studies on nutrition and food, cockroaches are good subjects because they will eat any kind of food. They can be used to study heart disease, and cancer researchers work with roaches because they grow cancerous tumors like those that are found in humans.
Which sentence in the passage is the main idea of this passage?
What is Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways.
The first paragraph of an essay where you introduce the topic and supporting details.
What is the introduction?
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers Is an example of what?
What is alliteration
What is the definition of installments as it used in the sentence below?
Because the car was expensive, my mom decided to pay twelve monthly installments.
What is payments?
The problem facing the protagonist. (Man vs Man, Man vs. Self, Man vs Nature, etc)
What is the conflict?
To persuade, to inform, to entertain are what?
What is the authors purpose for writing?
Who is going to pass this test with amazing ease?
What is me!