Punctuation
Parts of an Essay
Commonly Confused
Literary Devices
Wild Card
100
Used as an indicator to show dialogue or that something is a quotation from another work.
What are quotation marks? "..."
100
Name all the paragraphs of a traditional five-paragraph essay.
What are the introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion?
100
Consider to, two, and too. This is the word that means the number 2.
What is two?
100
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
Rhetorical appeal to the emotion.
What is pathos?
200
Used to join two independent clauses together without a coordinating conjunction. It looks like this ;
What is a semi-colan
200
It restates the main idea of the essay and tells the reader why he/she should care. It is the "so what" part of the essay. Sometimes it calls the reader to action.
What is a conclusion?
200
Consider to, two, and too. This is the word that means an excess of something as in-- it is ________ cold outside.
What is too?
200
When you give human qualities to an inanimate or non-human thing. The darkness smiled.
What is personification?
200
Rhetorical appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
300
It is what you do at the beginning of every sentence. You also use this for proper nouns and for the word "I".
What is capitalization?
300
It is the part of the essay that offers evidence, support, and clarification. It backs-up the main idea or main argument of the essay.
What is the body of the essay? Or what is a body paragraph?
300
Consider there, their, they're. This is the one that means they are.
What is they're?
300
The word choice that an author uses is called what?
What is diction?
300
When the audience knows something that a character or several characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
400
When citing a source, you use these punctuation marks around the author's name and source page number.
What are parenthesis?
400
This is the beginning of an essay. It attempts to "hook" the reader's interest and announce what the essay will be about.
What is the introduction?
400
Consider there, their, and they're. This is the one that is the possessive of they.
What is their?
400
The attitude of the writer.
What is tone?
400
The perspective from which a story is told. There are two main types: First-person and third-person.
What is point of view?
500
It shows possession. You use this punctuation mark to form another way of saying -- the car belongs to Steve.
What is an apostrophe?
500
It is a sentence that states the main idea of the essay.
What is a thesis statement?
500
Consider its and it's. This is the one that means it is.
What is it's?
500
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
500
Consider the following: Third-person objective, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited. Which is the one where the write does not reveal any of the thoughts or feelings of the characters. He/she writes like Hemingway did in "Hills Like White Elephants". This is type is more like film.
What is third-person objective?
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