Parts of Speech
This is the paragraph equivalent in poetry.
What is a stanza?
When you are asked to analyze two passages for the authors' use of symbolism, you are expected to produce this kind of writing.
What is analytical writing?
These are the the pieces of an introduction.
What are hook, background, and thesis?
This has characters, dialogue, and stage directions.
What is drama?
When the prompt asks you to retell the story from another character's perspective, you are expected to produce this type of writing.
What is a narrative?
What is rephrase thesis, summarize your argument, and go beyond?
This part of speech describes people, places and things, and always starts with a capital letter.
What is a proper noun?
The book, "Night," was an example of this genre in which someone relates a true story about their life.
What is a memoir?
What is persuasive writing?
When the question gives you a sentence from the excerpt inside a box, you are going to take this extra step before answering the question.
What is return to the passage to gather clues.
This part of speech describes verbs and adjectives
What is an adverb?
This is known as what the author wants the reader to get out of their piece of writing--the message or the moral of the story.
What is theme?
You need to include two of these types of details in each of your body paragraphs for persuasive and analytical essays.
What are direct quotes?
This is a word that takes the place of a noun. For example, instead of saying, "Mary went to the store," you could say, "SHE went to the store."
What is a pronoun?
"It's a million degrees outside," is an example of this style of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
This is the purpose of a body paragraph topic sentence.
What is tell the reader how the paragraph will support the thesis (simply saying telling the reader what the paragraph is about is not enough)?