Whose Genre is it Anyways?
Short Answer Responses
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Grammar Nuts
Figuratively Speaking
100
The type of writing that requires you to explain.
What is expository writing?
100
The score you get if you don't answer the question they ask.
What is a 0?
100
The number one rule of answering a persuasive prompt.
What is picking only one side or you cannot pick both sides?
100
What need to be changed in this sentence?
What is add an "s" onto need?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
Writing that uses stanzas and lines (versus paragraphs and sentences).
What is poetry?
200
The score you get when you answer the question, but you don't have a quote.
What is a 1?
200
The sentence that wraps up your entire argument with a "so-what?" statement.
What is a conclusion or a concluding statement.
200
If I were going to fix this sentence where should the comma go?
What is after the word "sentence?"
200
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The prompt will ask you to "state your position on..."
What is persuasive writing?
300
The score you get when you answer the question, but your quote doesn't match up with your answer.
What is a 1?
300
The way you separate your ideas in an essay.
What are paragraphs?
300
Another word for a dependent clause.
What is a dependent phrase?
300
"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
400
This type of writing features a protagonist and an antagonist.
What is narrative or literary writing?
400
The score you get when you answer the question decently AND have a fairly matching quote.
What is a 2?
400
The four components of Ms. Gaber's brainstorming activity.
What are Prompt, Ideas, Expert, and Working Thesis?
400
The seven conjunctions.
What are For And Nor But Or Yet So?
400
The author or speaker's attitude in the piece.
What is tone?
500
Another word for the category of auto-biographies or biographies.
What is literary non-fiction?
500
You get higher than a two when you have a....
What is a more complex idea?
500
The most important thing to have in your paper.
What is a strong thesis that answers the question.
500
Two words that sound the same but are written differently.
What are homophones?
500
When something completely unexpected happens to a character in the story.
What is irony?
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