Grammar
All names - people, titles, months, etc. need to be ______________________
Capital Letters
What is the meaning of the word "guile" in the sentence: "The spy used guile to infiltrate the enemy’s base"? Choose one word: Strength, wise, deception, hide
_______________
Deception
Instead of paragraphs a poem has
Stanzas
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
Reasons
An argumentative Essay must have a ____________, a ____________, and a Rebuttal
Claim, Counterclaim
When writing a quote, the ___________ always comes before the quotation marks. So you say the __________ said "..."
Author
Which word best fits the sentence? "The villain's plan was so _____ that even his allies were shocked by its cruelty."
a) Agile
b) Vile
c) Myriad
d) Potent
vile
a three line stanza in a poem is called a tercet. A four line stand in a poem quatrain. A two line stanza in a poem is called?
couplet
When you write a thesis statement, what word usually comes between the claim and the points?
because
A counterclaim is ________________
The opposite of what you believe in
We use _______________________ or _______________________when hand writing to show the work is a movie, book, website, newspaper, album, etc., Thus when citing the title of these works you use the ____ when typing or the ____ when writing with a hand
italics or underline
What does "potent" mean in this sentence? ________ "The potion was so potent that it worked instantly."
a) Weak
b) Powerful
c)Poisonous
d) Harmful
Powerful
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza _____
Beneath the moon, the shadows sigh,
The stars above begin to gleam,
A whisper floats on winds so high,
Through branches swaying in a dream,
Where secrets in the darkness squeal
ABABC
Your _________________ should sound like your thesis statement, but shorter
Topic
The last paragraph of an argumentative essay is called the ____________ paragraph
Conclusion
Don’t use two _________________ when you mean it to be negative - it changes the meaning. Don’t never do that! (That was an example)
Negatives
The word "myriad" most likely means:_________
a) A small amount
b) Countless or a large number
c) An evil act
d) A disguise
Countless or large amount
What is personification in poetry?
Giving human attributes or characters to non-human objects
What is the last sentence in your introductory paragraph called?
Thesis statement
In a 5 paragraph argumentative essay, the counterclaim and the rebuttal are found in body paragraph_______________
three
When listing many things, you use a ____________ before the and of the list item. e.g. 'I bought eggs, oranges, pineapples ___ and mangoes.
comma
The word couplet means __________
two
My mother is an angel. There is no need to go searching for one in heaven.
Which figurative language device is used in the text?
Metaphor
A topic sentence is usually the _______ of the body paragraph.
first
In the concluding paragraph you restate the ____________ in other words.
Thesis statement