ECRs
The acronym we use to write all body paragraphs.
What is RACES?
The number of years until the box in the closet of Lina's apartment clicked open.
What is 200 years?
Vivid sensory language used in writing that creates mental pictures.
What is imagery?
When and where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
The Inference Equation NO ABBREVIATIONS.
What is Background Knowledge + Text Evidence = Inference?
Another word for claim or argument.
What is a thesis?
Instead of getting her dream job, Lina pulls this job assignment from the Mayor's hat on Assignment Day.
What is a Pipeworks laborer?
A comparison that does NOT use 'like' or 'as'.
What is a metaphor?
The most intense or highest point of any story.
What is the climax?
In a story, an author uses this literary device as a warning or sign for what might come next.
What is foreshadowing?
The Thesis Equation.
What is
Restated Prompt + Reason 1+ Reason 2?
Lina's father and close friend, Clary, worked at this specific location.
What is the Greenhouse?
This kind of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or nonliving things.
What is personification?
The author's introduction to the characters, locations, and situations.
What is exposition?
Malala Yousafzai is from this country.
What is Pakistan?
An often-omitted last sentence by students; however, this written helping hand ties together loose ends in body paragraphs.
What is a "Sum it Up" / Glue sentence?
This character owns a stationery shop and becomes Lina and Poppy's guardian following Granny's passing.
Who is Mrs. Murdo?
This literary device puts two ideas next to each other to emphasize their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The emotional feeling or atmosphere a text creates for the reader.
What is mood?
What are persuade, inform, and entertain?
Type of word used by writers, most commonly at the beginning of paragraphs, to signal to their reader a bridge between different related ideas.
What is a transition word?
After the generator breaks and Doon cannot figure out how to fix it, he throws this object. It subsequently hits his father in the face as he is on his way into their apartment.
What is the heel of his shoe?
The type of figurative language where a word phonetically resembles or imitates the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
When a character's point of view is aware of all other characters' thoughts, feelings, and emotions, including their own.
What is third-person omniscient?
The five possible organizational patterns of a nonfiction text.
What are Description, Sequence (Chronological), Compare / Contrast, Cause / Effect, and Problem / Solution?