What Is Persuasive Writing?
What Is Persuasive Writing?
What Are Short Answer Responses?
What is Reading Comprehension?
What is Reading Comprehension?
100
A sentence in your text that contains the focus of your essay and tells your reader what the essay is going to be about.
What is a Thesis Statement?
100
Reasoning, Facts and Examples
What is Support?
100
A sentence providing a quote from the passage.
What is Textual Evidence?
100
The central topic of a text.
What is Theme?
100
The literal meaning of a word.
What is Denotation?
200
A sentence that explains why your side is correct.
What is a Refutation?
200
Minus 5 points
What is restating the prompt as your hook?
200
A sentence stating your response over the passage.
What is answering the question?
200
The attitude toward the subject and toward to audience implied in a literary work.
What is Tone?
200
Words that sound the same but have different spelling.
What is Synonym?
300
A sentence that recaps your thesis statement.
What is call to action?
300
A sentence in your text that contains the focus of your essay and tells your reader what the essay is going to be about.
What is Claim?
300
When you go into detail in your answer to illustrate your knowledge and understanding of the passage.
What is Elaboration?
300
A transition in tone within a text.
What is Shift?
300
A struggle or disagreement between two or more opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
What is Conflict?
400
3 with indentions
What is the minimum number of paragraphs you should have in your persuasive paper?
400
A sentence that grabs your readers attention.
What is a hook?
400
A failing grade if you do not show this.
What is not providing textual evidence?
400
a figure of speech involving the comparison of two or more unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
400
a figure of speech which makes an implied comparison between two or more things without using "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
500
A sentence that acknowledge the other side.
What is a concession?
500
An automatic "F" based on argument.
What is arguing both sides of the prompt?
500
A concise response providing evidence that you understand the passage, analysis, support for your answer with evidence from the reading and clarity.
What is a Short Answer Response?
500
an idea or feeling that a word implies in addition to its literal meaning.
What is Connotation?
500
A repetitive object or idea throughout a literary work.
What is Motif?
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