Definitions
Editing
Expository Essays
Strategies
Literary Devices
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a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
100
I couldn’t figure out why other people cared so much, and the thought of putting something into my eye gave me the creep’s.
Change creep's to creeps
100
The name for the answer to the prompt. What your entire paper is about
What is a thesis statement?
100
When you quickly read a text for important points
What is skimming?
100
Her eyes were like diamonds
What is a simile?
200
important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.
What is main idea?
200
We returned to the optometrist’s office, and within an hour I had took those contacts out and put them back in three times.
change had took to had taken
200
The first sentence in a body paragraph, meant to tell the reader what that paragraph will be about
What is a topic sentence?
200
When you cross out answer choices that you know cannot be correct
What is process of elimination?
200
The Dancer was a graceful eagle taking flight
What is a metaphor?
300
A warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
300
We were less then a mile from the doctor’s office when I announced, “Mom, I want to go back and learn how to put the lenses in myself"
change then to than
300
When you provide an example that is different than your first example
What is a contrasting example?
300
An annotation used to identify whether you need to read the whole text or just part of the text to answer a certain question.
What is book or brain?
300
Lightning danced across the sky
What is personification
400
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
400
“I can get you into contacts” she insisted every time she saw me.
Insert a comma after contacts
400
The sentence meant to draw your readers in and get them interested in your paper
What is a hook?
400
A strategy used to help you identify the tone of a passage
What is positive, negative, neutral (+, -, ~)
400
Anne of Green Gables talks about how she can stop talking but she actually just talks more
What is irony?
500
Putting the author's words into your own words
What is paraphrase?
500
Walking down crowded urban streets comes natural for most city dwellers.
change natural to naturally
500
The strategy that we tell you to use as the last sentence in your body paragraph that allows you to explain all sides of your argument
What is an if/then statement?
500
When you're reading a poem, an acronym used to help you identify the deeper meaning of a text
What is TPCASTT?
500
The US flag represents freedom
What is symbolism?
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