This technique separates something into its parts and examines them in detail.
What is analysis?
100
The longest of the three main word groups.
What is a sentence?
100
"Wordless, we split up. We were on our turf; we cloud lose ourselves in the neighborhood backyards, everyone for himself."
What is The Chase?
100
We flew out of the classroom like bats out of hell.
What is a simile (figurative language)?
100
This element of a piece of writing concerns its basic form.
What is structure / organization?
200
A technique which involves observing how things work together or holistically.
What is synthesis?
200
This word group consists of a single form of speech and its modifiers.
What is a phrase?
200
"Stephen now faces twenty years to life. Stephen's mother was illiterate. His grandparents were illiterate as well. What parental curse did not destroy was killed off finally by the schools."
What is The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society?
200
The desk which stood in the hall blocked our way.
What is a relative clause?
200
A term that indicates the level of formality and sophistication in word choice.
What is diction?
300
A word which means "way," "manner," or "kind." Often ordered with pie.
What is "mode"?
300
This quality of all three main word groups means that they can come inside one another, or in different levels, like Matryoshka dolls.
What is nesting / nested?
300
"Mr. Muhammad, to whom I was writing daily, had no idea of what a new world had opened up to me through my efforts to document his teachings in books."
What is A Homemade Education?
300
He didn't know anything about it, we didn't ask.
What is a comma splice?
300
A word meaning the easiness with which sentences or paragraphs move into each other.
What is flow?
400
Pertaining to things that everyone can verify (sometimes called "facts").
What is objective?
400
This word group is either independent or dependent.
What is a clause?
400
"When I finished the Creamsicle that the 7-11 clerk gave me, I held the wooden stick up into the air and shouted out very loudly."
What is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven?
400
She knew what he didn't know.
What is a noun clause?
400
Contextual information carefully and appropriately chosen in order to deepen and enliven one's writing.
What is detail?
500
This mode of thinking and writing is closely related to storytelling.
What is narrative?
500
These symbols, which separate and organize our writing, most often fall between word groups, and not inside them.
What is punctuation?
500
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail."
What is Civil Disobedience?
500
The truth being said in the end.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
The basic concepts of our thinking. The building blocks from which we create our writing, or even our thought processes.