Grammar
A connecting word! Links two clauses
and, or, but etc
conjunction
"The stars danced in the sky."
personification
A text that is not true/ not a true story.
Fiction
What major body of water sits East of Milwaukee?
Lake Michigan :)
Your essay always must include these types of paragraphs
Introduction, Body (argument), and Conclusion
Words like:
intelligent, sleepy, beautiful, angry, green, or crunchy
adjective
She was as strong as an ox.
Simile
A text that is created to be performed, rather than read.
A play/drama/script
What does "Milwaukee" mean?
The Good Land
The most important sentence in a formally written essay. Your 'argument'.
Thesis statement
The term for three periods
...
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
hyperbole
A nonfiction narrative, written from the perspective and memories of the author
Name one of the original peoples (Indigenous group) of what is now the Milwaukee area
Ho-Chunk, Potowatomi, Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Ojibwe
Most often, these words should be AVOIDED when writing a formal, analytical essay.
(also teacher discretion)
This is used to connect two INDEPENDENT clauses that are thematically connected
colon
CRASHHHH
onomatopeia
A piece of writing that balances the nature of speech and song
poem
This sea creature has three hearts !
Octopus
The system of citations we use in English/ Literary Studies.
MLA (Modern Language Association)
The official name for the comma right before "and" in a list:
She liked music, art, and travel.
Oxford Comma
Six silky snakes slithered slyly.
alliteration
(will also accept consonance)
A text about the whole of someone's life, written by that person.
autobiography
This is the best selling novel of all time at ~ 500 million copies
Don Quixote de la Mancha
The 'message' the author is sending: many times speaks to universal human nature/big ideas or wonderings about the world.