During this stage, writers use a graphic organizer or web to organize their ideas.
What is planning?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
Why something happens and what the result will be.
What is cause and effect?
200
Information on the setting and about where the actors should move, stand, etc. during the play. These are printed in italics or in are within parentheses.
What are stage directions?
200
Giving an object or animal abilities or characteristics of humans or other living creatures.
What is personification.
200
For an essay, the name for the paragraphs that should be focused on and should address the points of focus included in the thesis statement.
What are body paragraphs?
300
The events in the story.
What is the plot?
300
The main message of a paragraph or passage.
What is the main idea?
300
When an actor speaks her thoughts aloud [regardless of any hearers]; dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections or inner thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
300
A series of words that begin with the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
300
For an essay, this belongs at the end of the introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
400
The main problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
400
Putting together the main points of an article or reading selection.
What is summarizing?
400
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
What is a monologue?
400
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
In writing, the name for a question, or a brief quotation, or a brief, vivid description of a person or scene in the very beginning of the paper.
What is a hook, lead, or attention-getter?
500
The truth about life and living that the author wants readers to see and understand.
What is the theme?
500
Hints that help to define an unknown word in a sentence paragraph.
What are context clues?
500
When an actor speaks to one or more characters on stage -- while not allowing other characters to hear what she or he is saying.
What is an aside?
500
Comparing two things by saying that one thing is the other and not using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
500
This section or sentence comes at the close of a piece of writing.