Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'
Example: His mind was as bright as the sun.
The three main types of paragraphs in an academic essay.
What are...
Introduction paragraph
Body paragraph(s)
Conclusion paragraph
Information from a text to support a claim.
What is evidence from a text?
An explanation/description of where the story is taking place.
AND
A description of those to whom the story is taking place to.
What is an establishment of setting and characters?
A characters perspective/how a character sees the world/the thoughts and feelings and senses of a character
What is point of view?
A comparison between unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as'
Example: I'm drowning in a sea of grief.
What is a metaphor?
The three things you should probably include in your introduction paragraph.
What are...
An introduction of the texts that you are analyzing
An explanation of important topics that readers need to know
A thesis statement where you state your main argument
An explanation of why the evidence you chose supports the claim.
What is reasoning?
An increase of conflict or emotional tension.
What is rising action?
A statement of an essay's main argument. A direct answer to a prompt's question. Many people consider this sentence to be the most important sentence of an essay because it states the main claim and structures the rest of the essay.
Could be written as: 'I argue X because Y and Z.'
Where X = main claim; Y = reason/point 1; and Z = reason/point 2.
What is a thesis statement?
An exaggeration used for a figurative purpose.
Example: The pebble in my shoe was killing me.
What is a hyperbole?
The five things that you should include in body paragraph(s).
What are...
A topic sentence (that sometimes includes a claim)
A claim (if not already included in the topic sentence)
Evidence
Reasoning
Concluding sentence(s)
Correctly using your own words to lead into a quote. Not having the quote stand as a sentence alone.
What is introducing the quote with your own words?
The most exciting or emotionally intense part of the story -- often takes place towards the end of the story -- is often the turning point of the story.
What is the climax of a story?
A conversation between two or more characters rendered through text.
What is dialogue?
Giving non human things human-like characteristics.
Example: The lightning danced across the sky.
What is a personification?
The three things you should probably include in a conclusion paragraph.
What are...
A restatement of the thesis statement
A brief summary of the main points of you essay
An explanation of the purpose of the essay
The use of the author's own words as evidence in your writing.
Example: It is clear that Jeanne's father did not like the military as he lamented to the interrogator that war was the kind of thing that would always happen when "military men are in control" (56).
What is a direct quotation?
Depiction of things calming down and conflicts beginning to be resolved.
What is falling action?
A life lesson that emerges from a story. A moral of story. A universal truth that a literary work explores.
What is a literary theme?
Writing that is non literal yet has a descriptive/artistic purpose.
What is figurative language?
Devices used to smoothly move from one thought to the next so your essay has a logical flow and does not feel stagnant.
What are transitional words or phrases?
Taking information from a text but rephrasing the author's words into your own.
Example: Papa created an analogy between his perspective on the US and Japan being at war and a mother and a father fighting -- he did not want either to win, instead he just wanted them to stop fighting (58).
What is paraphrasing?
The conclusion of the story -- the final loose ends are tied up and finished.
The use of somewhat basic things to represent larger concepts/ideas.
What is symbolism?