Dress-Ups
The punctuation mark that goes after a because clause.
What is a comma?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This word means standing out; leading, important, or well-known.
What is prominent?
There are 5: hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, touching.
What are the five senses?
The topic sentence and the clincher sentence must repeat or reflect two or three key words.
What is the topic-clincher rule?
The banned word in the following sentence: Knights were good soldiers.
What is good? Extra point for a quality adjective.
The problem, want, or need of the main character of a story.
What is the conflict?
This word means dangerous; untrustworthy.
What is treacherous?
This type of writing makes a non-human thing seem human. The tree invited us to come and play.
What is personification?
When labeling these, the author will use numbers.
What are sentence openers?
The banned word in the following sentence: The dragon went into town.
What is went? Extra point for a strong verb.
The event that leads to the conflict being solved.
What is the climax?
This word means puzzled.
What is bewildered?
This type of writing uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison. The ball streaked across the field like a meteor.
What is simile?
The following are called this in IEW: quality adjectives, strong verbs, -ly adverbs, who/which clauses.
The banned word in the following sentence: The mom said, "Dinner is ready."
What is the word said? Extra point for a strong verb.
The people or animals in a story.
What are characters?
This word means emotionally out of control.
What is frantically?
The type of writing that uses the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
This sentence has 2-5 words.
What is the [6] very short sentence (VSS)?
The banned word in the following sentence : The dog came to the fence.
What is the word came? Extra point for a strong verb.
The events in a story.
What is the plot?
This word means perfect.
This type of writing uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
When writing this an author includes an introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
What is a basic 5-paragraph essay?