A form of writing in which the writer uses words to convince the reader that the writer's opinion is correct in regards to an issue.
What is persuasive writing?
100
PIE: persuade, inform, entertain
What is author's purpose?
100
Divides a figure into two mirror-image halves. There can be more than one.
What is line if symmetry?
100
Correct in all details; exact.
What is accurate?
100
A lens that produces an enlarged image, typically set in a frame with a handle and used to examine small or finely detailed things such as fingerprints, stamps, and fine print.
What is a magnifying glass?
200
A formal expression of goodwill, said on meeting or in a written message.
What is the greeting?
200
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
200
One thousandth of a meter (0.039 in.)
What is a millimeter?
200
An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
What is telescope?
200
Following continuously.
synonyms: successive, succeeding, following, in succession, running, in a row, one after the other, back-to-back, continuous, straight, uninterrupted
What is consecutive?
300
A standard formula of words used in a letter to address the person being written to.
What is a salutation?
300
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
300
There are three of these in a tablespoon.
What is a teaspoon?
300
A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation.
The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject.
What is predicate?
400
A story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.
What is a tall tale?
400
The train leaves at 3:30 and you need to board 15 minutes early, and it takes you 22 minutes to get to the train station, and it takes 7 minutes to check your luggage, the time you need to get to the train station.
What is 2:46 p.m.?
400
The active acquisition of information from a primary source. In living beings, it employs the senses. In science, it can also involve the recording of data via the use of instruments. The term may also refer to any data collected during the scientific activity.
What is observation?
400
A genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.
What is science fiction?
500
The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others and a role or character adopted by an author or an actor.
What is persona?
500
A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
synonyms: myth, saga, epic, tale, story, folk tale
What is a legend?
500
4/5 is ____________ than 6/8.
What is greater?
500
Arrive at a judgment or opinion by reasoning.
What is conclude?
500
A spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas and ways of solving problems of individually developing ideas and concepts.