Essay Structure
What is A Hook?
The first sentence in an essay that gets the readers attention.
What is a subject?
The person who is doing or saying something.
What is a similie?
Compares two things using like or as.
What is a pun?
A pun is a joke based on the interplay of homophones — words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. It can also play with words that sound similar, but not exactly the same. The joke’s humor (if any) comes from the confusion of the two meanings.
What is First Person Point Of View
In writing, the first person point of view uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective
What is commentary?
Commentary is the explanation of the events or facts within an essay.
What is a verb?
The action in the sentence.
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is an analogy?
An analogy is a literary technique in which two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities.
What is Third Person point of view?
In third-person point of view, the author is narrating a story about the characters, referring to them by name, or using the third-person pronouns “he,” “she,” and “they.”
What is Concrete Detail?
Concrete detail is the evidence given to support your thesis/claim.
What is a run-on sentence?
A run-on sentence is a sentence that includes 2 independent clauses but no punctuation or conjunctions.
What is Personification?
Personification is when you give an inanimate object a human quality.
What is a Idiom?
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
What is Third Person Limited?
The third person limited point of view is where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he.
What are transition words?
Transition Words help with the flow of your essay.
What is a preposition?
Preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.
What is an Allusion?
Allusion (pronounced ah-LOO-zhun) is basically a reference to something else. It’s when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work
What Is a resd herring?
A clue to mislead the reader.
What is Third Person Omniscient?
All Knowing
What is a thesis?
A thesis is a fact + the authors opinion on a topic.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A prepositional phrase is a prepetition and a noun that is refers to.
What is verbal Irony?
When a speaker makes a statement that is opposite of what they mean.
What is deus ex machina?
A character introduced at the end of the story that solves the conflict.
What is the LEAST used point of view?
Second Person