Grammar
All names of people, titles, months, places, etc. need to be ______
capitalized
There are ___________ basic parts to either an expository or argumentative essay.
3
You're as pretty as a picture is an example of a
My mom is my rock when things get bad is an example of a
simile
metaphor
In "Dear Basketball," _______________ (the writer) used ___________________ when it sounded like he was writing a break up letter to basketball.
Kobe Bryant personification
Zora Neale Hurston put together a bunch of ____________ stories in her folklore of Florida. These tell about how something ___________ because people didn't have good explanations of it back then - and the stories were fun.
creation began/came to be/started
Which sentence is correct?
1 - Me and Mom are going shopping.
2 - Mom and I are going shopping
Because the other person always comes _____
2 first
Do NOT start your essay with a ____________.
question
The moon smiled down on me is an example of _____
personitification.
Beyonce' said we should all be ___________________ for what we do in life and learn from our ______________ since they make us better and stronger.
accountable/responsible failures/mistakes
The __________________ of a story tells what is about and uses some details. The _____________ is bigger than the story and doesn't talk about any of the characters in a story, but gives a lesson about _____
main idea theme life
In quotes, the words from the text are always in ______________ and the ____________ always comes first.
quotation marks, comma
The ____________________ is the most important sentence in your essay because it is the outline for your whole paper. It should have the __________, __________, and ____________ you will use.
Thesis statement topic, claim, and points/reasons
Put some pep in your points so your sentence pops is an example of
alliteration
Jackie Robinson is remembered for many things, but one of the most important is that he was the first ______________
Even before that, he refused to ________ when he was in the military.
Black man in Major League Baseball.
move on the bus
The __________ of a story is how it sounds, and it gives you the author's feelings about the topic.
tone
Put a _____________ before the conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) when you are joining two complete sentences.
comma
The word _____________ usually comes between your claim and points in your thesis statement
because
A group of lines in poetry is called a ______. It's like a paragraph in prose.
stanza
President Obama told school children that they (you) need to ___________________ because they are the ________________ of the country.
work hard future
Explain all 4 letters in SOAR
Safe, On task, Accountable, and Responsible
The titles of major things like books, movies, newspapers, albums are in _____________, or ____________ if you're handwriting them. Smaller things like chapters, scenes, articles, songs are in _____________________
italics, underlined, quotation marks
Your _________________ should sound like your thesis statement, but shorter.
topic sentences
Good writing uses _____________ which appeals to your five senses so you can ___________ in your head.
imagery see it/picture it/imagine it
"Harlem" and "Dream" which both talked about what happens if you ___________ your dreams. He used a ___________ when he said the dream would be like a piece of stinking meat and a __________ when he said it may just explode.
put off/defer simile metaphor
You should never use ___________ when doing research.
Wikipedia