FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of this, giving human qualities to objects.
WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list or after an introductory phrase.
WHAT IS A COMMA
This structure explains why something happened and what the result was
WHAT IS CAUSE AND EFFECT
The Greek root "bio" (as in biology or biography) means this.
WHAT IS LIFE
This is the main idea or the point the author is trying to prove in an essay.
WHAT IS A THESIS STATEMENT
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
WHAT IS A SIMILE
This is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is doing.
WHAT IS A PREDICATE
In this structure, the author describes how two things are alike and how they are different.
WHAT IS COMPARE AND CONTRAST
A word that means the opposite of another word.
WHAT IS AN ANTONYM
The "POV" where the narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I."
WHAT IS FIRST PERSON
An extreme exaggeration, such as "I have a million miles of homework."
WHATIS A HYPERBOLE
You use these marks to show that someone is speaking directly.
WHAT ARE QUOTATION MARKS
An informational text organized by the time order in which events happened
WHAT IS CHORNOLOGICAL ORDER/SEQUENCE
A word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word.
WHAT IS A SYNONYM
These are words like "First," "However," and "In addition" that help glue ideas together.
WHAT ARE TRANSITION WORDS
This figure of speech compares two things by saying one thing is another (e.g., "Life is a roller coaster")
WHAT IS A METAPHOR
This type of sentence keeps going without any punctuation marks
WHAT IS A RUN-ON SENTENCE
A text that describes an issue and then offers ways to fix it.
PROBLEM/SOLUTION
The Latin root "vis" or "vid" (as in visible, video, or vision) means this
WHAT IS TO SEE
This stage of the writing process involves fixing spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
WHAT IS EDITING
The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in a series of words
WHAT IS ALLITERATION
WHAT PART OF SPEECH IS A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING
WHAT IS A NOUN
This type of writing TRIES to convince the reader
persuasive writing
These are the small parts added to the end of a root word to change its meaning or part of speech, such as -ful, -less, or -able.
WHAT ARE SUFFIXES
In an argumentative essay, this is the part where the writer acknowledges the opposing side’s view.
WHAT IS COUNTERCAIM/REBUTTAL/COUNTER-ARGUMENT