Vocabulary
Literary Devices
Genres
Writing Techniques
Reading Comprehension
100
Words that are opposites
What are antonyms?
100
Tool used to brainstorm pros and cons about a particular topic.
What is a t-chart?
100
Nonfiction writing which is about one's own life.
What is an autobiography?
100
Provides the main idea of the paragraph and usually comes at the beginning of a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
100
When the author expresses his own opinions or perspective
What is point of view?
200
The comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! Sentences that help to further explain the central idea and/or topic sentence
What are supporting details?
200
A nonfiction writing that retells the story in the 3rd person voice.
What is a biography?
200
Used to capture a reader's attention
What is a hook?
200
A way of determining an author's intended meaning of a term by viewing the text that comes before or after the term.
What is using context clues?
300
Text used in your writing to support your analysis or the reasons you have provided
What is evidence?
300
Tool used for brainstorming and creating a comparison between 2 or more objects, events, or people.
What is a Venn Diagram?
300
Type of nonfiction writing that does not tell a story, but rather explains/instructs the reader.
What is explanatory text?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Used to indicate the exact words used by someone else other than the actual writer.
What is a direct quotation?
300
The author's reason for writing.
What is the author's purpose?
400
The term used for words that are used differently from their literal, or usual meaning.
What is figurative meaning?
400
A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but literally it is not.
What is a metaphor?
400
Writing that not only reveals memories from the author's life, but also reveals the author's thinking and feeling.
What is a memoir?
400
This is taking an author's ideas, but re-writing them into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
The 3 different types of an author's purpose for writing.
What is to persuade, inform, and/or entertain?
500
Helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas
What is an analogy?
500
A concept of truth can be proved
What is fact?
500
Writing meant to influence the audience
What is persuasive writing?
500
This goes at the end of your introductory paragraph and gives your reasons.
What is a thesis?
500
Is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
What is tone?
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