Relate a sequence of events from personal experience and communicate the significance of the events to the audience.
What is an autobiographical essay
100
A story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience.
What is Drama
100
The time and place where a story takes place
What is the setting
100
A complete sentence must contain this along with a verb
What is a subject
100
Use these to separate a series of three or more words or phrases
What is a comma
200
Demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas of literary works while backing up ideas with quotes from the text
What is a response to literature
200
An account of a person's life written or told by another person
What is a biography
200
Point of view in a story where the main character is the narrator, uses the word "I" and cannot reveal the thoughts of other characters
What is 1st person
200
This is used to show the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence
What is a prepositional phrase
200
Use these to show the exact words a person is speaking
What are quotation marks
300
This is the only type of formal letter you may write for the essay portion of the CAHSEE
What is a business letter
300
Writing that is invented material and does not claim to be factually true.
What is fiction
300
When a word, phrase, action, or situation can be interpreted two or more ways, all of which can be supported
What is ambiguity
300
This part of the sentence receives the action performed by the subject
What is the direct object
300
Use this along with an "S" to indicate that a noun posses something
What is an apostrophe
400
Use evidence in support of a thesis, including information on all relevant perspectives and convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources accurately and coherently.
What is an expository essay
400
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination
What is poetry
400
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
What is Hyperbole
400
This verbal allows a verb to be used as a noun and always ends with -ing
What is a gerund
400
Words that are italicized in print are (blank) when they are hand written
What is underlined
500
Clarify and defend positions with precise and relevant evidence, including ethos, pathos and logos; Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained and logical fashion and Use specific rhetorical devices
What is a persuasive essay
500
A short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view and usually includes the writer's thoughts or reasoning
What is an essay
500
The ordinary form of spoken and written language; that is, language that lacks the special features of poetry
What is prose
500
These are used to modify verbs and usually tell us why something is happening in the sentence
What is an infinitive
500
Use this between two independent clauses of a compound sentence when they are not joined by a coordinate conjunction