Essay
The type of essay you are writing in English II.
What is a persuasive essay?
It is what you are left with after you remove all affixes.
What is a root word?
A simile is...
What is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as?
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
When you combine two words together to make one word.
What is a contraction?
What makes a strong thesis statement?
What is position + 2 reasons?
The affix at the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
A word that sounds like what it means. Example: buzz, click, bang
What is onomatopoeia?
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
This is the "possessive" form for the word "it".
What is "its"?
You must have this in your introduction and conclusion.
What is thesis statement?
The affix at the end of a word
What is a suffix?
The author's specific word choice.
What is diction?
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
What is Allusion?
This word is a pronoun used to refer to a place.
What is "there"?
How many paragraphs should your persuasive essay have? Name them.
What is 4? What are introduction, 1st body paragraph, 2nd body paragraph, and conclusion?
The prefix pre means...
What is before?
"I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish."
Identify the figurative language.
What is a simile?
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
What is Meter?
READ:
Since she lived in the country, we took trails through the woods and often stumble upon a wild animal or two.
Find the error. Explain why.
What is change stumble to stumbled?
This belongs at the beginning of your conclusion.
What is a counterargument?
The root word in preconception
What is concept?
"I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish."
What two things are being compared?
What is an aging woman to a fish?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is Free verse?
READ:
"Those weeks at my grandmothers house every summer taught me that routines can help you accomplish a lot and that they don't have to be boring."
Find the error, if any. Explain.
What is change grandmothers to grandmother's?
The house belongs to grandmother. It shows possessive.