Vocabulary & Word Choice
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
A statement, using "like" or "as," to make an indirect comparison between two things.
Thankfully, throughout our tour of the Everglades, giant trees, like skyscrapers, hovered over us providing much needed shade.
What is a simile?
The first paragraph in an essay.
What is the Introduction?
The type of sentence which generally ends with a period.
What is a declarative sentence?
The only form of essay writing which includes a narrator.
What is a narrative essay?
the feeling associated with a word
What is connotation?
An indirect comparison without the use of words like "like" or "as"
ex. Police cars flew past us in pursuit of the speeding vehicle.
What is a metaphor?
The first sentence of a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
These sentences ask questions and end with question marks.
What is an interrogative sentence?
Type of writing intended to convince an audience to agree with a certain opinion.
What is persuasive writing?
Words of things, ideas, beliefs and conditions which cannot be understood with the five senses.
What are abstract nouns?
When something - nonhuman - is given the human capabilities or attributes.
What is personification?
The element of essay writing which determines what each body paragraph will be about.
What is the thesis statement?
The punctuation error made when a comma separates two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
This type of writing sticks straight to the facts. It is informative and adheres to the strictest writing guidelines.
What is explanatory or expository writing?
the 8 types of words in the English language
What are the parts of speech?
a well-known figure of speech which typically has two meanings, a literal and non-literal one.
We knew from the sizes of the opposing team's starting lineup, we were in over our heads from the very beginning.
What is an idiom?
Expressed in the introduction, this is the main, general opinion the writer has about his or her topic.
What is the major inference?
The punctuation which usually precedes transition words and phrases in a sentence.
What is a semi-colon?
Another word commonly synonymous with the writer's "argument" in an argumentative essay.
What is a claim?
the word used to refer to words consisting of many syllables
What is multi-syllabic, or polysyllabic words?
This is a type of personification when specifically when aspects of nature are given human characteristics.
After three days of scorching heat, merciful Mother Nature cracked the sky sending shower storms throughout Broward County.
What is anthropomorphism?
Expressed in the introduction, these are the reasons, examples or suggestions the writer uses to illustrate, or defend his argument.
What are minor inferences?
Apostrophes can always be found in this ONE word shortened and formed from two.
What is a contraction?
The word which usually refers to the types of arguments a writer or debater uses to defend his ideas.
What is rhetoric?