Argumentative
Plays
Literary Terms
Essays
Educated Guess
100

An essay written to persuade or convince.

What is an argumentative essay?

100
Conversations between characters.

What is dialogue?

100

Message or lesson of a text

What is theme?

100

Essay that includes claim, evidence, counter-argument, and a rebuttal.

What is an argumentative essay?
100

When providing a quote to support an answer.

What is textual evidence?

200

Parts of an essay that are used to support the claim.

What is evidence?

200
The character who thought pity was a wasteful emotion because even those who are disabled should be expected to learn.

Who is Annie?

200

Time and place of a text

What is setting?

200

An essay that provides similarities and differences between two different texts.

Compare and contrast

200
Using the phrases in a sentence to help guess the definition of a difficult word.

What is context clues?

300
Stating an opinion about a position.

What is a claim?

300
Instructions written in a play so that actors know what to do.

What are stage directions?

300
Descriptions given within a text, using the 5 senses.

What is imagery?

300
A piece of writing that tells a story, and includes a narrator.

What is a narrative?

300

The dictionary definition of a word?

What is denotation?

400
When bringing up the other side's opinion.

What is a counter-argument?

400
A play whose theme was that no one should blame others without evidence. 

What is "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"?

400

Author's attitude or emotions towards their subject.

What is tone?

400

The main subject or topic of a text.

What is central idea?

400
Using the text to make an educated guess about a character or theme.

What is inference?

500
When arguing against the counter-argument.

What is a rebuttal?

500

When people expect one thing, but the exact opposite happens.

What is irony?

500

A problem within a text.

What is conflict?

500

An essay in which the writer analyzes a piece of a literature, providing a claim about one of the characters.

What is a literary analysis?

500

The emotional definition of a word.

What is connotation?

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