Types of Sentences
The Writing Process
Nouns
Figurative Language
ELA Facts
100

This type of sentence asks a question.

What is an interrogative question?

100

This is the final stage of the writing process.

What is publishing? 

100

This type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing.

What is a proper noun?

100

This uses like or as to compare two things.

What is a simile?

100

This goes in the first paragraph of an essay.

What is the thesis statement?

200

This type of sentence expresses strong feeling.

What is an exclamatory sentence?

200

This is the third stage of the writing process.

What is revising?

200

This type of noun does not name a specific person, place, thing or idea.

What is a common noun?

200

This figurative language device gives nonhuman objects human-like qualities.

What is personification? 

200

This should summarize the main point of an essay.

What is the conclusion?

300
This type of sentence makes a statement.

What is a declarative sentence? 

300

This is the fourth stage of the writing process.

What is editing?

300

This type of noun shows that there is more than one person, place, or thing.

What is a plural noun?

300

This figurative language device uses exaggeration to emphasize a point.

What is hyperbole?

300

This determines the word choice and other factors of an essay.

What is the audience?

400

This type of sentence gives a command.

What is an imperative sentence?

400

This is the second stage of the writing process.

What is drafting?

400

This type of noun shows that there is only one person, place, or thing.

What is a singular noun?

400

This figurative language device compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

400

This can be used to begin thinking of an idea for an essay and to narrow a topic.

What is a mind map? or What is a idea web?

500

A set of words consisting of a subject and a verb.

What is a sentence?

500

This is the first stage of the writing process.

What is prewriting?

500

This can be a subject or object in a sentence. 

What is a noun?

500

This figurative language device uses words to represent something or represent an idea.

What is symbolism?

500

This is the writing format most commonly used in schools for essay writing.

What is MLA?

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