PARTS OF AN ESSAY
READING STRATEGIES
PARTS OF SPEECH
FIGURATIVE SPEECH
POETRY TERMS
100
This is the part of an essay that grabs your readers' attention.
What is a hook/attention getter?
100
This means writing all over your paper and making it your own.
What is ANNOTATION?
100
A PERSON, PLACE, OR THING.......................(yes, I am serious)
What is a NOUN?
100
This uses a word that is used to describe two different things using LIKE or AS
What is a simile?
100
Jack and Jill Went up the Hill
What is rhyme?
200
This is the sentence that goes right after the hook.
What is the transition sentence?
200
This strategy also includes highlighting, underlining, and writing notes on the side.
What is ALSO ANNOTATION?
200
This part of speech describes what you DO.
What is a VERB?
200
This comparison is like a similie, but does not use LIKE or AS?
What is a METAPHOR?
200
This is the "paragraph" of the poem.
What is a STANZA?
300
This is the most important part of your essay. Without this, you don't know what you will be writing about.
What is a thesis statement?
300
This is the strategy we use to analyze EXPOSITORY text?
What is SOAPSTONE?
300
This part of speech goes before a noun or verb and is used to describe.
What is an ADJECTIVE? Example: A fast car; a red rose; a mean teacher
300
This term is a repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of a line of poetry or prose. Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore
What is ALLITERATION?
300
a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d-e-e-f-f-g-g
What is RHYME SCHEME?
400
This is the format for writing a STAAR literary essay....
What is BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END?
400
This is the strategy we use when we analyze POETRY?
What is FRACTIONS?
400
This part of speech describes to what degree: example: quickly, softly, gently, harshly....
What is an ADVERB?
400
This is a form of speaking that is an exaggeration. Example: I am so hungry, I could eat a horse. I told you A MILLION times to clean your room.
What is hyperbole?
400
A-A- B-B- C-C.....ARE
What are rhyming couplets?
500
On the STAAR expository prompt, this is the format....
What is: 1) WRITE THESIS FIRST 2) WRITE CONCLUSION SECOND 3) Write the examples in the middle
500
CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR TEAM JUST WON 500 POINTS!
You win 500 points!
500
This part of speech means: in, out, under, below, over, etc.
What is a PREPOSITION?
500
This figurative speech means that the is spelled just like the sound. Example: The bee buzzes.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
This is the study of poetry: rhyme, meter, figurative language, etc.
What is PROSIDY?
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