Connotation/Denotation
Tells the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
A period, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
What goes at the end of a sentence?
A piece of writing, 3 or more paragraphs long, focused on one topic
What is an essay?
Figurative language adds meaning, interest, and creativity to writing.
Why do writers use figurative language?
The purpose of narrative writing.
What is telling a story?
Tells the feeling you get from a word, positive or negative.
What is connotation?
What you do to the first letter of proper nouns such a person's names or specific places.
What is capitalize them?
Person vs. self
What is (internal) conflict?
This is an example: lovely lollipops look luscious.
What is alliteration?
How fairy tales often start.
What is "once upon a time?"
The connotation of the words "left out."
What is lonely, or sad, or angry (or some other negative) feeling?
Punctuation used to separate items in a series such as apples oranges bananas and cherries.
What is a comma?
person vs. technology, person vs. nature, person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. supernatural
What is (external) conflict?
One example is "A book is like a flying carpet to take you anywhere."
What is a simile?
The feeling the reader gets, which may change, when reading a story.
What is mood?
The connotation of birthday cake and ice cream.
What is happy, delicious, (or some other positive feeling word)?
Punctuation mark that goes around the title of a poem, short story, or article.
What are "quotation marks?"
A characteristic or character trait of a survivor or hero
What is courageous, hopeful, resilient, smart, strong, (or some other appropriate positive quality)?
An example is "BOOM!"
What is onomatopoeia?
Tone of a story.
What is the author's attitude (toward his subject)?
The connotation of scream.
What is scared, frightened, startled (or some other appropriate negative feeling)?
The . . . that shows a piece of text is missing.
What are elepses?
The last sentence of the first paragraph in an essay about a book.
What is a thesis statement?
An example -- "your face is a sun beaming light into the world."
What is a metaphor?
The two words you should not use to start an answer to essay or narrative writing prompt.
What are the words "I think?"