Friendly Letter Content
A friendly letter has 1, 2, or 3 of these.
What are paragraphs?
This describes the location and time of the story or novel.
What is setting?
This prefix means "before."
What is "pre-"?
This must be present in an argument piece of writing within the first paragraph, preferably in the 1st or 2nd sentence.
What is a claim?
These feathered animals make Mrs. G happy and feeling Zen.
What are chickens?
These vary greatly in friendly letters.
What are the numbers of sentences and the sentences per paragraph?
This point of view gives the reader a lot of insight into the main character but not as much into the other characters.
What is first person point of view?
This color is a deep orangey-red.
What is vermillion?
This is a move writers make to help the writing flow easily. It might show up as verb forms repeating, noun types repeating, or even a simple word at the beginning of several sentences.
What is parallel structure?
What embarrassing thing did Mrs. G do on the first day of school.
What is falling?
Friendly letters do not include these after paragraphs.
What are spaces?
This is not the main idea of a story, but it is an overarching universal idea which does not include characters, setting, or other details from the story.
What is theme?
This word has the same meaning as vanished.
What is evanesced?
This element of argument writing has to do with acknowledging an opponent's point of view without overtly disagreeing.
What is concession?
This is the number of children Mrs. G has.
What is three?
Most people omit this in their friendly letters.
What is the sender's address?
The Scarlet Ibis is told in this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
This word means someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.
What is invalid? (must be pronounced correctly to gain points!)
If someone argues that a certain diet is the healthiest, this could present studies showing that the diet lacks essential nutrients?
What is a counterargument?
Mrs. G graduated from this high school.
What is San Angelo Central High School?
With friendly letters, these are many more ways to do this than with a business letter.
What are closing options?
The narrator's perspective in this point of view allows us to know most everything about all of the characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
The italicized part of the sentence describes this word.
He leaned over the 24-story building and felt as if he had no reassurance that he wouldn't fall.
What is precariously?
These things that we all have should be kept out of an argumentative essay.
What are emotions?
This person is Mrs. G’s husband.
Who is Ernie Gonzales?