Research
Checking an author's background for education and experience
What is authority?
When a writer uses someone else's words without giving them proper credit
What is plagiarism?
A comparison of two unlike things that uses the words like or as
What is a simile?
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
The end of a line in a poem
What is a line break?
When an information source is considered trustworthy and believable
What is credibility?
When an author puts information or ideas into their own words
What is paraphrasing?
A comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
The struggle in a story?
What is conflict?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
The reason why a source was written
What is purpose?
A sentence that includes a topic, the author's position, and 2 or more reasons
What is a thesis statement?
A comparison that gives the qualities or characteristics of a person to an animal, object, or item
What is personification?
The author's message to readers
What is theme?
When the subject, tone, or mood changes in a poem
What is a shift?
When an author gives credit to their information sources
What is citation?
Words and phrases that help readers follow the organization of ideas in a paper
What are transitions?
Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch)
What is imagery?
The way an author feels about a topic
What is tone?
Three characteristics poems share with rap
What are rhythm, rhyme, and imagery?
The complete acronym for checking a source's credibility
What is currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose?
The parts of a body paragraph
What are topic sentence, evidence, explanation, and concluding sentence?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words near each other
What is alliteration?
The feeling a reader gets from the story
What is mood?
The complete acronym for finding deeper meaning in a poem
What is title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title again, and theme?