Grammar
Vocabulary
Reading
Persuasion
Language Terms
100
A word that combines two words using an apostrophe
What is a contraction?
100
A word that means "to convince someone to do something?"
What is persuasion?
100
When we mark up our text to better understand and make connections.
What is annotating?
100
This persuasion technique uses emotion
What is pathos?
100
Your topic sentence, usually located at the end of the first paragraph
What is a thesis?
200
A punctation used to show possession (example: Tim's football)
What is an apostrophe?
200
A word that means "bright" or "brightly lighting a dark place"
What is luminous?
200
An essay that states an opinion and defends it with supporting evidence.
What is argumentative essay?
200
This persuasion technique uses experts, celebrities, and other famous people.
What is logos?
200
The last paragraph of your essay or paper
What is a conclusion?
300
The punctuation that separates words in a list or combines words together
What is a comma?
300
A word that means "carefully watching"
What is vigilant?
300
A nonfiction book about a real person, written by someone else
What is a biography?
300
A type of commercial or video that uses mostly pathos to persuade their readers; always has a call to action
What is a PSA?
300
This means to try to guess what will happen next
What is prediction?
400
This is a word used to combine two sentences together (Hint: FANBOYS)
What is a conjunction?
400
A word that means "never ending" or "ongoing"
What is unceasing?
400
A genre of literature that is not true or did not really happen
What is fiction?
400
This acronym stands for "Public Service Announcement"
What is PSA?
400
This is a language term that means "story"
What is narrative?
500
The verb tense in the sentence "He WENT to the store."
What is past tense?
500
A word that means "weighed down" or "loaded down upon"
What is burdened?
500
This technique uses logic and facts to persuade
What is logos?
500
This is a genre of literature in which the author writes about himself or herself.
What is an autobiography?
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