Vocabulary 1
This is how you tell a text is written in first person point of view.
What is the use of the pronoun I in the narration?
This word means to examine two things for their similarities and differences.
What is to compare?
These are three of the words called conjunctions that are used to make compound sentences?
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so? (Any two of these.)
This is what you should do at the begining of every paragraph of your STAAR writing.
What is indent?
What are the 3 biggest rules in my classs?
No sighing, dancing, cap
What is an archetype?
This word means to show.
What is convey, illustrate, portray, or reveal? (Any of these 4 words would be the correct answer.)
These are three examples of words that should be capitalized.
This is the suggested number of paragraphs for your STAAR writing.
What is four?
What is my least favorite class
3rd period
This is the pattern of rhyme in a poem.
This is a reference to history, culture, or science that is outside of the events of the work of literature.
What is allusion?
This is what you put around phrases that add information to a sentence and interrupt the flow of the sentence.
What are commas?
This is the meaning of the G in the essay format we learned for the introduction.
What is general sentence?
What is my favorite book?
None of your bussiness
This word refers to extra information that isn't needed in the essay.
What is extraneous?
This is to highlight, point out, or emphasize.
What is to underscore?
This is the thing you should NEVER put by itself between two complete sentences.
What is just a comma?
This is the meaning of G-S-T for the essay introduction.
What is general sentence, specific sentence (naming the text), and thesis.
Name 6 of your fellow classsmates and tell me one thing about them that is not a description
answers will vary
This means repeated information that's not needed.
What is redundant?
These are stories told to make a point.
What is an anecdote?
This is a phrase before the main sentence that is set off with a comma.
What is an introductory phrase?
This is the acronym that tells what should be in the body paragraph plus the meaning of each letter.
What is T - topic sentence, E - evidence, and E - explanation?
One thing you learned in this cycle
vary