Grammar
This puctuation mark and part of speech can be used to connect two independent clauses.
What is a comma and a conjuction?
This is a story in which man hunts man.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game?"
The point in the narrative where the tension or conflict is at its highest point.
What is the climax?
This directs your essay and lets your reader know in what direction you are heading.
What is the claim or thesis?
A mellifluous voice sounds like this golden food.
What is honey?
This is a verb form that functions as an adjective.
What is a participle?
These are the people led to their death by Peter and Wendy in "The Veldt."
Who are the parents of Wendy and Peter?
This is the central idea, topic or point of the story of the essay, story or narrative
What is the theme?
These essays are often anecdotal, experiential, and personal, like telling a story.
What is a narrative essay?
This is one word to describe a person after they have finished ablutions.
What is "clean" or "ready for worship?"
This verb form functions as a noun.
What is a gerrund?
This is what killed Ulrich von Gradwitz and Gerog Znaeym in "The Interlopers."
What are wolves?
This is a category of literature identified by form, content, and style.
What is genre?
The essay requires the student to investigate a topic, collect and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
What is a persuasive or arguemantative essay?
This is what the delusional cat thought he looked like in the mirror.
What is a lion or a tiger?
This form of punctuation can be used as a "supercomma"
What is a semi-colon?
Madame Loisel spent ten years working for this which is also the name of the short story.
What is "The Necklace?"
This is what the letters MLA stand for.
What is Modern Language Association?
This is used in essays and research papers by quoting or paraphrasing others' work.
What is evidence or a citation?
In the Bible, Noah built an ark to protect against this vocabulary word.
What is a deluge?-
These are the eight parts of speech.
What are noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, prepositon, conjunction and interjection?
"A Sound of Thunder" talks about this effect in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
What is the butterfly effect?
This is when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
These are three devices used to sway the reader to a certain point of view.
What are pathos, ethos and logos?
This is another vocabulary word for "road-kill."
What is carrion?