Argumentative Essays
The statement summarizing the main argument of an essay
The bare bones of your essay, usually in jot note form
What is an outline?
What happens in a story
What is the plot?
The correct spelling of grammer
What is grammar?
Using the five senses ("His hair smelled like my grandmother's rosemary shampoo.")
What is imagery?
The stuff the reader needs to know before they read your essay
What is the context?
The practice of avoiding personal pronouns such as "I" and "we"
What is third-person writing?
Where and when the story takes place
What is setting?
The following sentence is missing two of this punctuation mark.
Joe went to the store to buy milk bread and cheese.
What are commas?
Comparing an adjective and a noun ("His hair was blacker than night.")
What is a simile?
The meat of the essay; the space in which you flesh out your points and expand on your thesis
What are the body paragraphs?
A type of expository essay that shows the similarities and differences between two things
What is a compare/contrast essay?
The change a character undergoes throughout a story
What is character development?
"____ going _____ to see _____ house."
There, their, and they're added to the above sentence.
What is "They're going there to see their house"?
Giving human qualities to a non-human object ("His hair waved at me in the wind.")
What is personification?
What is an anecdote?
The strongest ones of these cannot be Googled easily, and often start with "why" and "how"
What are research questions?
The major problem in a story that is resolved one way or another by the end
What is the conflict?
The correct capitalization of harry potter went to new york on monday afternoon.
What is "Harry Potter went to New York on Monday afternoon"?
Exaggeration in order to make a point ("His hair was so spiky, it could pass as a medieval torture device.")
What is hyperbole?
A form of argumentation that's effective for connecting to and convincing people, but cannot be used to prove anything
What is using emotion?
The practice of trying to remain unopinionated and stating only the facts
What is objectivity?
The "big ideas" of a story that reflect what it means to be human - usually can be inferred by the solution to the conflict
What are the themes?
This sentence revised to be grammatically correct:
"Even though he didn't want to his mom said he had to and he was going to get in trouble if he didn't and he thought that was really mean."
What is "Even though he didn't want to, his mom said he had to. He was going to get in trouble if he didn't, and he thought that was really mean"?
Using vague language to make something sound less harsh than it actually is ("His hair emanated an unpleasant aroma.")
What is euphemism?