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 FANBOYS.)
This is what you should do at the begining of every paragraph of your STAAR writing.
What is indent?
This is what should be between items in a series when there are more than two.
One example of this is the following:
True friendship takes effort.
What is a theme?
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 five?
This is the number of characters (not counting spaces) allowed in your essay.
What is 2,300?
These are detailed descriptions that include sensory detail or figurative language to create an picture in the mind.
What is imagery.
This is another word for a letter.
What is correspondence.
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?
This is the boss or roadmap of your essay.
What is the thesis?
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.
These are the two things that your thesis should do.
What is answer the prompt and give the reasons you will talk about in your body paragraphs?
This is an image or idea that is repeated in literature such as the rumble in West Side Story or evil in The Crucible. It's connected to the theme or message.
What is motif?
These are stories told to make a point and could be used in your third body paragraph.
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 meaning of T-E-E, which is the template for your body paragraphs.
What is T - topic sentence, E - evidence, and E - explanation?
These are two of the questions you can answer in your explanation of a quote or other evidence.
What is: What does the evidence show? Why does the evidence matter? How does the evidence connect to the topic sentence?