CATEGORY 1: LITERATURE – Ninth Ward, A Long Walk to Water, Into the Lifeboat
This major real-life disaster forms the setting of Ninth Ward.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The main statement or viewpoint in argument writing.
What is the claim?
Comma rule: When a sentence begins with a dependent clause, the comma goes ________.
What is after the clause?
The lesson or message of a poem or story.
What is the theme?
This is what we call the place and time of a story.
What is the setting?
The noun a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
Facts and examples that support an argument.
What is evidence?
Identify the type of comma use:
“After the storm ended, we climbed into the boat.”
What is an introductory element comma / dependent clause comma?
Identifying the figurative language: “The wind whispered secrets.”
What is personification?
Salva shows this character trait when he keeps walking despite hardships.
What is determination/perseverance?
A sentence joined by FANBOYS is called this.
What is a compound sentence?
The part of an argument that explains why the evidence supports the claim.
What is reasoning?
Words like “however,” “for example,” and “in fact” require this punctuation mark.
What is a comma?
A brief personal story used in informational text.
What is an anecdote?
This type of writing tells a true story from the author's own life.
What is a memoir?
A phrase beginning with words like “in,” “under,” “during,” or “through.”
What is a prepositional phrase?
These two must match in number: singular with singular, plural with plural.
What are the subject and verb?
AAAWWUBBIS words usually create this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
Words like “always,” “never,” and “everyone” are examples of this persuasive technique.
What is extreme/absolute language?
This type of language creates strong mental images for the reader.
What is descriptive language/imagery?
A sentence that has one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This part of an argument shows what the other side might say.
What is the counterclaim?
Fix the sentence:
Although the waves were huge we held on tightly.
Although the waves were huge, we held on tightly.
Restating a poem’s lines in your own words is called this.
What is paraphrasing?