Informative Writing
What are the three main parts of an essay?
What is Introduction, Body, Conclusion
What is the purpose of an expository writing piece?
What is to educate the reader
What is blank verse
What type of literary device is being used below-
“Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa
What is a metaphor
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
What is the purpose of an informative essay?
What is to provide information, or explain steps in a process.
What are some of the most common examples of expository writing?
What are scientific reports, academic essays, and magazine articles
A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem
What is stanza
If you say someone has “cold feet,” this is an example of what literary device?
What is an idiom
What is the name of the painting that depicts a woman lying in a shallow body of water from the play Hamlet?
What is Ophelia
Where could you see informative texts?
What are "how-to" books, newspapers, textbooks, reference materials, and research papers
The "anchor" or What is the statement that is the main idea of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The name of the Claude McKay poem that talks about Red Sumer of 1919
What is If We Must Die
What is oxymoron
The name of Jack Sparrow's ship
What is The Black Pearl
This order usually refers to steps in a process or event- we see/use it in informative writing.
What is sequential/ logical order
To state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
What is a claim
What city did we mention where the Red Summer also took place?
What is Chicago
What types of literary device is being used below?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
- “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
What is personification
Double Points
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is a genre
What story(s) will we read in this unit?
What is Animal Farm and "The Pedestrian"
What is the name of the format we use for essays?
What is MLA formating
The activities of the advancement for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance lead to what movement of the 50s and 60s?
What is the civil rights movement
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
What is anecdotes
Fill in the blank- The _____ was a symbol of
war for the ________.
What are dragon and Vikings