Vocab
This is the author's main idea with their point of view.
What is a claim?
(I will also accept thesis.)
The action of a piece of fiction (a novel, a story, or a play).
What is plot?
When reading a text, we read the title first to guess what the passage might be about.
What is a prediction?
A grammatical error in which a sentence contains too many ideas connected by repeated conjunctions.
What is a run-on?
These are specific details from a passage, often in quotation form, that support your main claim.
The tone group contains the following adjectives: boorish, indignant, vindictive, scornful, and outraged.
What is 'angry'? ðŸ˜
The main idea or message of a story or poem.
What is the theme of a story or poem?
By identifying this literary element for each paragraph, we can track the author, narrator, or character's attitude develops over the course of the passage.
What is tone?
This punctuation mark indicates the beginning of a list or explanation, all within a single sentence.
What is a colon?
This way of using words goes beyond the literal meaning in order to create a certain effect.
What is figurative language?
This category of transition is used when idea 1 and idea 2 are opposites.
What are 'contrast' transitions?
Also known as a 'poetry paragraph,' these are subdivisions of poems.
What is a stanza?
Many questions ask for this type of educated guess or conclusion is based on evidence from the passage, background information, and logical reasoning.
What is an inference?
Often misused, this punctuation mark connects two independent clauses (each of which could be a complete sentence on their own) into a single sentence, indicating that the two clauses are linked.
What is a semi-colon?
These vivid descriptions that help readers visualize details often contain figurative language, such as metaphor or simile.
What is imagery?
Grabbing your readers' attention, this opens an essay.
What is a hook?
In a play, these are the italicized sections that are not spoken aloud but provide instructions to the performers on stage on how to act.
What are 'stage directions'?
This formula of three sentences fully answers short-answer questions.
What is answer, evidence, and explanation?
What is an elipses?
This point of view is when a story is told through the eyes of the narrator, using 'I' and 'me' pronouns, and reveals their direct thoughts and feelings.
What is first person?
This Greek-based word describes when two (or more) characters speak back and forth in a story.
What is dialogue?
A genre of fiction embedded in the real world where fantastical things happen for little to no reason, such as in "The Paper Menagerie".
What is 'magical realism'?
This pre-writing strategy helps us get all our ideas and thoughts about an essay question on scrap paper so that we can focus on writing effectively on the test.
What is free-writing?
A common grammatical error when multiple clauses are separated by commas within a single sentence without any conjunctions to connect these clauses.
What is a comma splice?
When a sentence in a poem continues onto the next section, Dr. Roepke calls this literary device a 'poetry yellow light.'
What is enjambment?