Higher-Level Vocabulary
Writing Do's & Don'ts
Revising/Editing
Reading
Text Structures
100
Describes when 2 or more events/things happen at the same time. 
What is simultaneous?
100
This refers to the single most informal word, a writer should never use.
What is "you?"
100
Is located at either the beginning or the end of a dictionary.
What is the style manual?
100
Refers to the story line as a whole. 
What is main idea?
100
Tells what happened and why. 
What is cause/effect?
200
When an event or something takes a small break. 
What is a hiatus?
200
This is the best way to organize an essay.
What are using paragraphs?
200
Refers to the names of people, places, organizations, etc...and/or first words in a sentence.
What is words that are capitalized?
200
The highest point/event in a story.
What is the climax?
200
Simply give the readers information about something. 
What is descriptive?
300
Allowing oneself to partake in unrestrained pleasure of something.
What is to indulge?
300
Break up each word instead of using these. 
What are contractions?
300
Connects two independent clauses with a subordinating or coordinating conjunction. 
What is a comma?
300
Refers to the perspective of the author in the story.
What is point-of-view?
300
An ad for bullying would most likely display this type of text structure. 
What is problem/solution?
400
This describes someone who is an expert at a specific idea, skill, or notion. 
What is a connoisseur?
400
This sentence is known as the main idea of the writer's essay. 
What is a thesis statement?
400

Notice the mistake in the sentence: 


The little girl seemed to frightened to tell the police officer what had happened to her father. 

What is change "to" to "too."
400
This refers to the author's attitude in the story. 
What is tone?
400
A magazine blog displaying 2 different products would have this type of organization. 
What is compare/contrast?
500
The act of helping or making something easier or less painful for someone.
What is to alleviate? 
500
Refers to the type of essay one must write on their English I STAAR.
What is an expository essay?
500

Notice the mistake in the following sentence:


Spring time brings gentle rains and warmer weather, in addition to thunderstorms and hail.

What is change the comma to a semicolon?
500
Suggests the lesson or moral readers are supposed to take away from the passage.
What is theme?
500
Reading an excerpt in a history book about the Industrial Revolution. 
What is chronological?
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