Vocabulary
A story that teaches a lesson often with animals as characters.
What is a fable?
A word that names a person place or thing
What is a noun?
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The first paragraph of an essay
What is an introduction?
What sports did Ms. Williams play in college?
What is basketball and volleyball?
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
The punctuation used at the end of a declarative sentence
What is a period?
Giving human qualities to non human things
What is personification?
The final paragraph or an essay that wraps up ideas
What is a conclusion?
What high school did Ms. Williams go to?
What is Westside High School?
The person or force that opposes the protagonist
What is the antagonist?
A phrase that begins with a preposition and adds detail to a sentence
What is a prepositional phrase?
A phrase that cannot be understood from it's individual words ( ex: It's raining cats and dogs)
What is an idiom?
Words or phrases that help connect ideas in writing
What are transition words?
How many children does Ms. Williams have?
What is two children?
A reference to a famous person,place, or event
What is an allusion?
The subject and verb must agree with this aspect of writing
What is a subject-verb agreement?
A direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
A guess based on clues from the text?
What is an inference?
What job did Ms.Williams have before she became a teacher?
What is working at a News Station?
The high point of the story, where the conflict reaches its peak
What is the climax?
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The type of writing that tells a story
What is narrative writing?
The reason an author writes something--- such as to inform, persuade, or entertain
What is author's purpose?
What is one of Ms. Williams's goal for this year?
What is losing weight, making good grades in school?