Grammar and Spelling
This part of a sentence informs the reader of where, when, or in what way.
What is a preposition or a prepositional phrase?
This purpose of the author is only concerned with presenting the facts and events in a clear and concise way.
What is Informative writing?
This is often used in informative writing in order to grab the reader's attention in the beginning of the essay.
What is a hook?
What is annotating the prompt?
These things are added to the beginnings of roots which change the meanings of the words.
What is a prefix?
This is when a noun or pronoun is set beside another noun in order to identify or explain it.
What is an appositive?
This is the thing or event that kicks the story off, that acts as a catalyst which forces the story in motion.
What is the Inciting Incident?
When writing, it is important to have conflict in the story. This is when a character battles with forces outside of it's control, such as fate or luck.
What is Person vs. Self?
We get this from the task of the prompt.
What is half of our thesis statement?
This is Mr. Kraft's favorite food.
What is steak?
This grammar element is when a verb is used as either the subject or object of another verb, ending in "-ing".
What is a gerund?
These two things are affected by changes in setting, specifically time.
What is culture and technology?
This poetic device deals with the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line, creating a rhythm. William Shakespeare created a very famous one involving sets of five.
What is meter? (Iambic Pentameter)
This introduces what our body paragraph is about, connecting it to the sequential evidence from our thesis statement.
What is the topic sentence?
This is one of Mr. Larkin's favorite pastimes.
What is camping or rock climbing?
This type of sentence has both an independent and a dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This archetype is easily corruptible, but very powerful, often arrogant. An example would be Morpheus from the Matrix, or Darth Vader from Star Wars.
What is the Mage?
This is a literary device that is a figure of speech that refers to a famous person, place or historical event either directly or by implication. Example: "Rose is a real Einstein."
What is an allusion?
These are the three questions that you should answer when you introduce your evidence.
What is who/what, where, and why?
This is Mr. Kraft's most used phrase, possibly his catch phrase.
What is "cool beans"?
This is put next to a word to identify it, and is often a common error because it is not next to the subject of the sentence.
What is a modifier? (Dangling Modifiers are the error)
This is something that represents something else, often greater than itself.
What is Symbolism?
This poetic device is used to appeal to the reader's sense of motion and movement in order to describe something.
What is Kinesthetic Imagery?
These questions should be answered when you have a fully worked analysis in your body paragraph.
What are why is this important, why was it picked, and how it connect/proves thesis?
This is the one thing that you need to remember, from the very first days of class.
What is the phrase: "Don't Panic. You know more than you think you do."