Author's Methods
This method shows the private things a character thinks that aren't shared aloud with others.
Inner thoughts
In the Painted Essay template, this section is colored red and catches the reader's attention.
Introduction
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Simile
When quoting from a text, you must include these marks around the exact words.
Quotation marks
This is the name for the a person who writes a text.
Author
This method uses specific and vivid details, often with imagery, to help readers visualize what's happening.
Description
The focus statement in a Painted Essay is represented by this color.
Green
These are the lessons or messages an author makes about life or the real world through their text.
Themes
A reliable internet source should be published by organizations with these three domain endings.
.gov, .edu, .org
This character or speaker tells the story to the reader.
Narrator
This method involves the actual words spoken by one character to another, written with quotation marks.
Dialogue
In Proof Paragraph 2, this is the part that connects the ideas from the first proof paragraph to the second.
Transition Sentence
This literary device gives human-like characteristics to inanimate objects, like "the valley marched all the way up to the water."
Personification
When citing sources, you should include the author's name in this format.
Last name, First name
This point of view uses pronouns like "I," "me," and "my."
First person
This method provides a specific instance or sample to illustrate an idea or concept.
Examples
The conclusion of a Painted Essay should answer these two questions: "What?" and this.
"So what?"
This literary device uses exaggeration to emphasize a point, like "I waited in the dark for what seemed like forever."
Hyperbole
Credible
This point of view uses pronouns like "he," "she," and "they."
Third person
This method tells a short and interesting, sometimes funny, story to illustrate a point.
Anecdote
According to the MCAS checklist, your narrative should clearly establish these two things in the beginning.
Setting and characters
In the compare and contrast essay, this difference between the book and movie added more action to the Medusa scene.
Annabeth driving a truck through the warehouse
In the ________ phase of the design thinking process, design thinkers develop possible solutions for the problem
Imagine
In informational texts, point of view is this person's perspective on the topic