Introductions
Conclusions
Types of Writing
Ways of Writing
Random
100
The focus of your essay; it can be either general or more specific
What is a thesis statement?
100
The key points made in a text; the main ideas.
What is the central idea or main idea?
100
The perspective from which a story is told (1st or 3rd).
What is point of view?
100
Showing that things are similar.
What is comparing?
200
Must be engaging, or the reader will stop reading/lose interest
What is the hook?
200
The pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea.
What are details?
200
Writing that contains a setting, plot, and characters.
What is a narrative/story?
200
The narrator is outside the story and observes all the characters and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
200
Showing differences.
What is contrasting?
300
Something many of us forget to include in our essays, but it gives the reader some insight to the topic at hand.
What is background information/bridge?
300
To tell the main points in a shorts, simple, and clear way.
What is to summarize?
300
Where you read multiple texts (more than 2) or watch a video, then write an essay comparing the texts in some way.
What is Research Simulation?
300
The narrator is outside of the story and observes all of the characters but only knows the feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
300
The central message, what the author wants you to know; often inferred by the reader.
What is the theme?
400
My senses are engaged and I feel as if I am in the situation. There may even be some figurative language. I know I won't stop reading!
What is a scenario/imagery?
400
The sequence of events in a story or narrative.
What is plot?
400
A question or instruction that tells you what you're supposed to write.
What is a prompt?
400
The narrator is inside the story as a specific character.
What is first person point of view?
400
Must be used in either essay or narrative writing to enhance your score; this can be accomplished in a variety of ways
What is a compositional risk?
500
When events are arranged in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological order?
500
The reason an author writes a selection
What is author's purpose?
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