Writing Skills
To avoid a run-on sentence, you can use this punctuation mark to join two independent clauses without using a conjunction like and or but.
What is semicolon?
What is a simile?
Comparing something using like or as.
Often confused with a motif, it is the underlying message or central idea of a literary work.
What is theme?
Category: Reading Comprehension
Clue: This is a conclusion or educated guess a reader makes by combining clues from the text with their own background knowledge, rather than relying on something explicitly stated.
What is an inference?
Converting the passive sentence "The delicious cake was baked by my grandmother" into the active voice results in this 5-word sentence.
What is "My grandmother baked the cake"? (or "My grandmother baked delicious cake")
To make a cat plural, you usually just add an s, but to show that something belongs to the cat, you need this punctuation mark.
What is an apostrophe?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things directly, such as saying "life is a highway," without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
Often contrasted with "good," this common literary theme involves a struggle against a villain or a corrupting force.
What is evil?
When you encounter an unfamiliar word in a passage, you use this 2-word term for the surrounding hints and information to infer what the unknown word means.
What are context clues?
Changing the passive sentence "The broken window was replaced by the landlord" into the active voice results in this 5-word sentence.
What is "The landlord replaced the window"?
This 10-letter word refers to a word or phrase that connects ideas between sentences or paragraphs, such as "however" or "consequently."
What is transition?
An exaggeration so dramatic that no one could possibly believe it's literally true, such as "I’m so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
This literary element refers to both the physical location and the specific time period in which a story's action takes place.
What is setting
This type of information is clearly, directly, and plainly stated right on the page.
What is explicit information?
Changing the passive sentence "The championship game was won by the underdogs" into the active voice results in this 5-word sentence.
What is "The underdogs won the championship"?
This 14-letter term refers to a sentence that is missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought, often resulting in an unfinished idea.
What is a sentence fragment?
Gives human qualities or emotions to non-human objects or animals, like saying "the wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
This 11-letter term refers to the person who tells the story and provides the perspective from which the audience views the action.
What is the narrator?
Mateo's book has 5 chapters. Chapter 2 is longer than Chapter 3. Chapter 3 is longer than Chapter 4. If Chapter 1 is the longest chapter in the entire book, a reader can infer that this specific chapter is the shortest.
What is Chapter 4?
What makes a voice active?
The subject of the setence performs the action
This 9-letter term refers to the "main point" or central argument of an essay, usually found at the end of the introduction.
What is a thesis
From the Greek for "naming," it's the use of a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the sound it describes, such as "hiss," "buzz," or "bang."
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the exact phrase, quote, or specific detail taken directly from a passage that a reader uses to prove their analysis or back up their claim.
What is text evidence?
Maya has 4 blocks: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. The Red block is heavier than the Blue block. The Blue block is heavier than the Green block. If the Yellow block is the heaviest of all, a reader can infer that this color block is the lightest.
What is green?
What makes a voice passive
When a action is done to something rather than something doing the action