Figurative Language
He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
What is a simile?
The moral or lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
The format or tool used for writing body paragraphs.
What is TEXI?
It took the students a few weeks to get acclimated to their new teacher?
What is to get used to?
Information that is quoted in your essay that support your claim/answer.
What is evidence?
Life is a highway
What is a metaphor?
The people that participate in the story.
Who or what are the characters?
As essay that compares similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
I seriously don’t know how you bungled that last play. The ball was right in your hand. How did you drop it? Bungled means...
What is to mess up badly?
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
What are the parts of an Essay?
I've explained this to you a billion times!
What is hyperbole?
When and where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Another name for a story.
What is a narrative?
The medicine should help ameliorate the pain. Ameliorate means...
What is to ease the pain?
At the end of the story when the problem is resolved.
What is the resolution?
The leaves danced in the wind like ballerinas
What is personification?
The central problem that the main character must overcome.
What is the conflict?
A writing task that requires the reader to use two sources (usually two texts)
What is a literary analysis?
Mr. Freely is a cantankerous, old man who’s always yelling at us to get off his lawn. I hate his guts! Cantankerous means...
What is mean, angry, or bad-tempered?
The narrator uses words like "I", Me", "My" to talk about their own experience within a story.
What is first person point of view?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
The events that make up the story.
What is the plot?
A writing task that requires the reader to use three sources (usually two texts and a video).
What is a research simulation task?
Everybody was enraptured when the roller coaster did the big drop. Enraptured means...
What is full of excitement, or gives intense joy?
The last sentence of the introduction, which states what my essay will prove.
What is the thesis statement?