A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
Bonus: Give an example.
What is a simile?
100
Writing where the author is giving information or facts.
What is informative writing?
100
Words that replace nouns in a sentence so it is not repetitive.
Bonus: Give an example of this in first person.
What are pronouns?
100
Two words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
100
Stories that are made up and not factual.
What is fiction?
200
Giving nonhuman things, human like characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Writing where the author is trying to persuade the reader and get them to agree.
What is persuasive writing?
200
Identify the antecedent in the following sentence:
My sister took her car to the car wash.
What is sister?
200
Two words that have opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
200
It is a character that changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
300
There are three types of "author's purpose". Name all three.
What is to persuade, to entertain, or to inform?
300
The part of a writing where the author is closing and restating their points.
What is a conclusion?
300
Give an example of first person, second person, and third person pronouns.
What is I, you, and she?
300
When Mariah got to her room, she rummaged through her backpack, searching for her music folder.
Which word is a synonym for rummaged?
What is looked?
300
To make an educated guess based on clues or evidence from text.
What is inference?
400
Complete the analogy:
Page is to book as leaf is to _________.
What is tree?
400
The part of writing where you present your ideas and claim.
What is the introduction?
400
A sentence that contains both a dependent clause and an independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
400
Language that does not mean exactly what it says.
Example: personification, metaphor
What is figurative language?
400
Name the three types of narrative writing.
What are fictional, biographical, or personal?
500
The third step in the plot diagram.
Bonus: Name all 5 parts of the plot diagram.
What is climax?
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
500
Stating examples or facts explicitly mentioned in the text.
What is citing evidence?
500
A type of pronoun that always ends in self or selves.
What are reflexive or intensive pronouns?
500
Which answer choice could replace the word "debate" and provides the most positive connotation?
Carl and his wife had a debate about moving to a new home.
a. quarrel
b. dispute
c. discussion
d. disagreement