Figurative language
writing process
modes of writing
genres
odds and ends
100
compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
brainstorming ideas using circle maps
What is prewriting?
100
tells a story and has a beginning, middle, and end
What is a narrative?
100
often rhymes or can be free verse
What is poetry?
100
repetition of the initial sound, a tongue twister
What is alliteration?
200
giving human characteristics to something not human
What is personification?
200
writing the final copy
What is publishing?
200
explains or gives information with lots of reasons and details
What is expository?
200
tells a story, fiction or nonfictiion
What is a narrative?
200
words or phrase not used in the normal way
What is an idiom?
300
straight out comparing two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
300
making it sound better by adding lots of details
What is revising?
300
convinces someone to believe a certain way or to do something by giving lots of reasons and examples
What is persuasive?
300
gives true facts on a subject, uses graphs, charts, pictures, captions
What is non-fiction?
300
uses sound words
What is onomatopoeia?
400
exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
making it look better by correcting mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, and sentence structure
What is editing?
400
shares how you feel about a certain topic, often backed up with research
What is opinion?
400
tells the story of a person's life
What is biography?
400
words underneath pictures in non-fiction text
What is a caption?
500
opposites in a phrase
What is an oxymoron?
500
Taking the ideas from the flee map/graphic organizer to write the first copy
What is drafting?
500
note taking, gives information, often using websites as sources
What is research?
500
tells that story of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
500
lists pages that give information on a certain topic in a book, alphabetical, good for research writing
What is an index?
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