The time and place of the action of a story. Usually includes the background, atmosphere, or environment in which characters live and move.
What is the setting?
100
The use of the same word or words more than once.
What is repetition?
100
This is a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile.
100
The expression of the claim that the writer or speaker is going to support. The main idea statement.
What is a thesis?
100
Action words.
What is a verb?
200
This is the author's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
200
A reference to an event, literary work or person ex:( I can’t do that because I am not Superman.) Remember our talk about Family Guy and the Simpsons.
What is allusion?
200
This occurs when objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
The first paragraph of an essay.
What is the introduction?
200
A word used to describe or modify a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
An underlying message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
300
A word or object that stands for another word or object. The object or word can be seen with the eye or not visible.
What is a symbol?
300
Language that appeals to one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Support taken from another text that is used to back up your argument.
What is textual evidence?
300
A word used to link two ideas in a sentence.
What is a conjunction?
400
This is how a story makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
400
Uses words or phrases with a similar structure EX:( I went to the store, parked the car, and bought a pizza.)
What is parallel structure or parallelism?
400
This is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
400
The words at the beginning of your paragraphs that help create good flow from one paragraph to the next.
What are transitions?
400
A word used to describe or modify a verb.
What is an adverb?
500
When you use clues from a text to draw a conclusion, you make one of these.
What is an inference?
500
An argument made to answer another argument. When you talk about the "other side" in your paper.
What is a counterargument?
500
Words whose sounds echo their meanings.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
The last sentence of your conclusion. Directions to the reader.
What is the call to action?
500
A word used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun in a sentence and another word in the sentence.