Essay writing
The button used to indent your essay
Tab
Type of figurative language that compares two items that are not alike in nature. Author uses it to get their theme or central idea across.
Metaphors
This and the smaller versions of it will give you hints to what the text is about.
Title and headings
This is not the topic of the fictional text but is what the author is trying to teach the reader
Theme
These are used to help you answer the essay question
The multiple choice questions
What you will read at the beginning of the essay. May give you a hint for the essay.
The prompt
Reference another book, song, person, part of history to get their point across. Also used by the author to get their point across.
Allusion
The author's purpose in an informational text.
To inform the reader about the subject or topic
The author’s attitude toward the writing/audience (his characters, the situation) and the readers. A work of writing can have more than one. An example could be both serious and humorous.
Tone
This is how you cite a fictional or informational text
(author's last name, paragraph number)
The button you will use to start a new paragraph after finishing your previous one.
Enter
This gives human characteristics to inhuman objects. Used by an author to get their theme or central idea across
Personification
What you will use to understand words you do not understand
Context clues
The general atmosphere created by the author’s words. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words. It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.
Mood
This is how you cite a poem or play
(author. line number(s)).
(Act.Scene.Lines)
These are the most important parts of your essay
Your two-three body paragraphs
There are three types of these. They can appeal to the reader's emotion, try to make the author appear credible, or appear logic. Used by the author to get their theme or central idea across.
Rhetorical devices
Ethos-Credibility
Pathos-Emotions
Logos-Logic
When writing an essay this is how you will organize your evidence
Text 2
Text 1
Text 2
The author's reason for or intent in writing. May be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition.
Author's purpose
A personality characteristic or inherent value that someone has which they are unlikely to change and that helps to make an individual into the kind of person he is.
Reason behind a character's behavior
Character trait
Character motivation
If asked what does this reveal about the character it probably wants a character trait
These are the parts of your body paragraphs that are MOST important
Topic sentence
Evidence
Analysis
Visually descriptive language.
Imagery
These are the methods the author uses to provide information to the reader and get the reader to understand the central idea
Chronological Order or Process
Problem/Solution
Cause/Effect
Description
Compare/Contrast
This strategy can be used to eliminate wrong answers on the multiple choice
Process of elimination
What information should NOT be included in a paragraph about insects? a. the anatomy of insects b. what dogs like to eat c. what insects like to eat d. where insects live
what dogs like to eat