Essay Extravagance
The answer to this should be 4-5.
What is how many paragraphs my essays will be?
He moved as slow as a turtle is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is simile?
Breakfast, lunch, snack, and water
This type of summary does not include personal opinions.
What is objective summary?
Mr. Haluga makes this (loud) sound on the announcements.
What is an airhorn?
What are transition words?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
This is important the night before the test...and always!
What is sleep?
The life lesson or moral of the story
What is theme?
The name of Mrs. Wuebben's baby
Who is Bo?
What is third person point of view?
Buzz, hiss, sizzle, pop
Onomatopoeia
Before reading the passages, it is very helpful to do this.
What is preview the questions, including the essay prompts?
Another term for main idea. It is typically written in one sentence.
What is central idea?
Before the Falcons, the name of Ayer's mascot
What is Ayer Apples?
The two types of essays you will (likely) write.
What are informative and argumentative essays?
Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
What is the paper provided by my teacher?
The viewpoint of the author or character
What is perspective?
The first ancient civilization we studied this school year.
What is Mesopotamia?
If you are to include evidence from the passages, and there are two passages, you will include evidence from this many passages.
What is two?
Exaggerated claims or statements not meant to be taken literally. Example: I've told you a million times.
Hyperbole
What is NO?!
Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast, Sequence, Description, Cause and Effect
What are nonfiction text structures?
The name of Sage's brother
Who is Darius?