Language Conventions
Vocabulary
Elements of a Plot
Writing Assignments
Theme or Central Idea
100

Is not a stand alone sentence.

What is a dependent clause?

100

A words literal dictionary meaning.

What is denotation?

100

The conflict of a story is resolved in....

What is the resolution?

100

A writer's opinion or position.

What is a claim?

100

Found in literature.

What is theme?

200

Two sentences joined with a comma and conjunction.

What is a compound sentence?

200

When you combine evidence with what you know your making an.....

What is inference?

200

The story begins to draw to a close. 

What is falling action?

200

This number of paragraphs makes good essay structure.

What is 5?

200

Found in informational texts.

What is central or main idea?

300

Two or more of these modify the same noun.

What is a coordinate adjective?

300

Reason for writing that can either be to persuade, entertain, or inform.

What is author's purpose?

300

The best part of the story.

What is the climax?

300

This is what is done to catch mistakes in your essay.

What is editing?

300

What the text was mainly about.

What is central idea?

400

Is a stand alone sentence.

What is an independent clause?
400

Describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

400
Events start to create suspense in.....

What is the rising action?

400

The other side of an argument. 

What is counterargument or counterclaim?

400

Moral or lesson of the story.

What is a theme?

500

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words.

What is alliteration?

500
A words meaning that comes from ideas and feelings associated with the word. (hint: can be positive or negative)

What is connotation?

500

We meet the characters and find out the setting in the....

What is exposition?

500

An essay that tells a story.

What is narrative?

500

True or False

The Flight of Icarus had a central idea.

What is false?

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