Essays
What is the highest score you can get on an essay on STAAR?
What is 4?
In a literary text, who is the person telling the story who may or may not be a character in the story
What is the message or meaning of a literary work?
Which of the ITALIC words or phrases in the following sentence could be deleted without changing the meaning?
Various different companies offer incentive plans to their employees.
a. different
b. incentive
c. plans
d. employees
What is DIFFERENT?
Name one thing that you need in your 1st paragraph of a STAAR essay.
What is THESIS STATEMENT or POSITION STATEMENT?
What do you call the author's attitude toward a subject?
What kind of statement ACKNOWLEDGES the "other side" of the argument to tear it down in a persuasive paper?
What is CONCESSION?
Choose the best conjunction to combine this sentence pair.
We can ask directions. We can use a map.
A. and
B. but
C. or
D. because
What is C?
Identify the sentence that uses capitalization correctly.
A. In the movie, David had a difficult time in cuba.
B. in the movie, David had a difficult time in Cuba.
C. In the Movie, David had a difficult time in Cuba.
D. In the movie, David had a difficult time in Cuba.
What is D?
What MUST you include in your essay to pass?
What is a POSITION, EXAMPLE, and POWER SENTENCE?
This is comparing two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is METAPHOR?
What kind of statement addresses reasons to oppose another argument?
What is a COUNTER ARGUMENT or COUNTER CLAIM?
What is a way to fix a run-on sentence?
What is FANBOYS and a comma, recombine/re-word
Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
a. Sadly, I walked home.
b. Sadly I walked home.
c. Sadly I walked, home.
d. Sadly, I walked, home.
What is A?
What is to EXPLAIN, PROVE, and/or SUPPORTS your argumentative claim?
What is the struggle between opposing forces
Identify the purpose of a composition with
the following title:
“Good Reasons to Always Drive Safely”
A. persuasive
B. expository
C. narrative
D. descriptive
What is A?
We use commas before conjunctions Which is NOT the correct way to use a comma before a conjunction?
A. We were hungry, so we grabbed a burger.
B. He wanted to buy the new game, but he didn't have enough money.
C. Do you want to ride your bike, or your scooter?
D. I love to sing yet, I am not very good at it.
What is D? I love to sing yet, I am not very good at it.
This word is the possessive form for the word "them" or "they". The toy was _______.
What is theirs?
What kind of examples could you use in your essay?
What is ENTERTAINMENT, ANECDOTE, CURRENT EVENTS, and HISTORY (EACH examples)?
What strategy do you use for poetry and what does the acronym stand for?
What is TPFASTT: TITLE, PARAPHRASE, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, SHIFT, TITLE, and THEME?
The following sentence pair can be revised into one better sentence. Choose the sentence that is the best revision.
The bicycle tire is flat. The bicycle tire is on
the bike.
a. The bicycle tire is on the bike and the bicycle tire is flat.
b. The flat bicycle tire is on the bike.
c. On the bike, the bicycle tire there is flat.
d. The bicycle tire on the bike is flat.
What is D?
Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
a. The Little League baseball fields near San Diego California are clean and well-lit.
b. The Little League baseball fields near San Diego, California, are clean and well-lit.
c. The Little League baseball fields near San Diego, California are clean and well-lit.
d. The Little League baseball fields near San Diego, California are clean, and well-lit.
What is C?