What is a thesis statement?
The thesis statement is the main idea of the entire essay.
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Telling your readers a real or made-up story that follows a plot graph.
What is a narrative?
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It connects each paragraph with a sentence or two that demonstrates how each idea leads to the next.
What is the transition?
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"I was 6 when my brother John leaned across the kitchen table and casually whispered that he had killed Santa Claus."
The sentence is an example of a...
What is a hook?
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The saying, "Show, don't tell" means you should do these things:
What is when you include sensory details of what you saw, heard, touched, felt and/or tasted?
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When you have a clear, specific thesis statement and every detail, fact and example in your essay relates to this main idea.
What is focus?
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Capturing your readers' interest with a strong opening.
What is a hook?
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It provides the reader an overview of the main ideas you've discussed.
What is the conclusion?
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When every detail, fact and example relates to the main message or that one specific event of your personal narrative.
What is focus?
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The acronym for Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Hyperbole, and Onomatopeia.
What is SMAPHO?
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It's one of the key verbs for Expository.
What is Explain?
It's one of the key verbs for Expository.
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The writer's thoughts before the event happens, the setting and the characters are written in this section.
What is the exposition?
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Specific textual evidence that supports your thesis statement is found here...
What is the body?
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"Despite the fact that", "eventually", and "finally" are examples of...
What is transition?
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The four types of sentences that create variety.
What simple, compound, compound-complex and complex?
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The purpose of this nonfiction writing is to give information about a specific subject.
What is the expository essay?
The purpose of this nonfiction writing is to give information about a specific subject.
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The "why", the "so what" or the "lesson learned" of the essay is in this section.
What is the conclusion, denouement or resolution?
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Using specific examples, facts and explanations.
What is developing an idea?
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Setting the scene for the reader is part of what's called...
What is Exposition?
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This is the book you should use when you want to flavor your essay with better word choices that are similar in meaning to the hackneyed ones.
What is the thesaurus?
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The details that support the topic sentences may be examples from sports, personal experiences, entertainment, history and others.
What are LENSES?
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What you should do to all your paragraphs?
What is indent?
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Each of these should cover a separate point that develops the essay’s thesis.
What is the body paragraphs?
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My eyes focused on my newest discovery. This one I knew for sure would make TIME Magazine.
"This," my voice quaked, "is the Lost Cave with Iron Door..."