Sentences
Writing Process
Words Often Confused
Punctuation
Poetry
100
who or what the sentence is about
What is the subject?
100
in this step you think about subjects you would like to write about
What is prewriting?
100
Mrs. Hlinak's students studied (there, their, they're) LA notes.
their
100
used for titles of short works such as short stories and poems
What are quotation marks?
100
a comparison that uses like or as
What is a simile?
200
tells something about the subject
What is the predicate?
200
In this step you check for errors in punctuation.
What is editing?
200
Mrs. Hlinak will not (except, accept) poor quality work!
What is accept?
200
used to indicate possession
What is an apostrophe?
200
an exaggeration used for effect
What is a hyperbole?
300
word group that is missing a subject, verb or complete thought
What is sentence fragment?
300
In this step you create a final copy of your writing.
What is publishing?
300
The class remained (quiet, quite) as they reviewed for the exam.
What is quiet?
300
to enclose materials that are added to a sentence but not considered of major importance
What are parentheses?
300
giving an inanimate object life-like qualities
What is personification?
400
when words and phrases in a sentence have a similar structure
What is parallelism?
400
In this step you read over your writing and make changes to improve what you have written.
What is revising?
400
I'd better study; I don't want to (loose, lose) my A in language arts.
What is lose?
400
Used before a coordinating conjunction when it joins independent clauses in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
400
comparing two unlike objects
What is a metaphor?
500
identifies the main idea in a paragraph
What is the topic sentence?
500
In this step you write and don't worry about mistakes.
What is drafting?
500
If I get a poor exam grade, it may have an (effect, affect) on my future!
What is effect?
500
used to join independent clauses when a coordinating conjunction is NOT used
What is a semi-colon?
500
an expression that taken literally, means something different than it does figuratively
What is an idiom?
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