Test Terms
To collect the most important parts of a text into a short, succinct set of sentences.
What is a summary?
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
Paragraphs, but in a poem
What is a stanza?
The sentence that is the focus of your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The individual words in the acronym FANBOYS
A statement in a text that states the author's position on an issue.
What is a position statement?
The idea an author is trying to get across to you in a text.
What is the message?
What is theme?
the poetic device that repeats the ending sound(s) of words.
What is rhyme?
The sentences at the beginning of each body paragraph that focus the subject of that paragraph.
What is a topic sentence.
A fanboy and a comma used to join two independent clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
To compare two things using "like" or "as".
Simile
To give a non-human object human characteristics
What is personification?
A poetic device that repeats the sounds at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration?
The thing you should repeat in your conclusion.
What is a thesis statement?
The most important tool available to you for spelling, definitions, and punctuation rules.
What is a dictionary?
To compare two things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
When a character doesn't know something that the reader does.
What is dramatic irony?
A fourteen line poem with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet.
What is text evidence?
What is a semicolon?
To interpret an idea from implications in the text.
What is inference?
What is to infer?
The emotional or implied meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
The poetic device where the vowel sounds are repeated in a word.
What is Assonance?
The step you should take after you give your example/evidence.
What is explanation?
What is a transition.