Narrative Writing
Informative Writing
Persuasive Writing
Celebrities
Music
100
This type of writing uses made up or pretend events.
What is fiction?
100
These are the three purposes of authors.
What are to persuade, inform, and entertain?
100
This is the author's answer to the question being asked.
What is a claim?
100
This is Ms. McClanahan's favorite artist.
Who is Bob Ross?
100
This form of poetry has no rules.
What is free verse?
200
This type of writing uses true personal experiences to tell a story.
What is personal narrative/memoir?
200
This is the statement about what the writing is about.
What is a thesis statement?
200
Where you find evidence to support a claim.
What is the text?
200
This rapper was not only born the same month as Ms. McClanahan, but also went to the same middle school in the 7th grade.
Who is Eminem?
200
This type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics: "Boom, boom, boom, shake the room!"
What is onomatopoeia?
300
These are descriptive details that use the five senses.
What are sensory details?
300
Taking part of a text and putting the information in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
This explains how the evidence provided proves the claim.
What is Reasoning?
300
This celebrity is known for "rehabilitating dogs" and "training people," and is known for his shows on Animal Planet.
Who is Cesar Milan?
300
This form of figurative language is used below: "Baby, you're a firework."
What is metaphor?
400
The author's use of thoughts, actions, emotions, appearance, relationships, and speech to tell the reader about the characters in the story.
What is characterization/character traits?
400
What you must add to your writing when you use a direct quote from a text.
What is a citation (cite)?
400
This may be included in persuasive writing/speaking, but never in informative writing/speaking.
What is opinion?
400
This incredibly talented musician, one of Ms. McClanahan's favorites, died in April, 2016 at his home in Minneapolis, which was named "Paisley Park."
Who is Prince?
400
This is the figurative language used below: "She got me going like a puppet on a string."
What is a simile?
500
Of the three ways an author conveys tone in a story, these are two of them.
What are: word choice, setting, characterization?
500
There are five things we use to know if a source is valid. These are three of them.
What are Timeliness (timely), Relevance, Authority, Accuracy (accurate), and Purpose?
500
This is the term used to describe a writer's request for a resolution to the problem in a persuasive speech.
What is a call to action?
500
This celebrity athlete, who died in 2016, referred to himself as the "greatest fighter of all time."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
500
This type of figurative language appears in the following lyrics: "It's raining men! Hallelujah, it's raining men! Amen!"
What is hyperbole?
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