Informative Writing
What are the three main parts of an essay?
What is Introduction, Body, Conclusion
What is the purpose of an expository writing piece?
What is to educate the reader
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
What is 154
What type of literary device is being used below-
“Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa
What is a metaphor
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
What is the purpose of an informative essay?
What is to provide information, or explain steps in a process.
What are some of the most common examples of expository writing?
What are scientific reports, academic essays, and magazine articles
Two lines of verse that follow one another and are connected by rhythm and rhyme.
What is a couplet
What is blank verse
What is the name of the painting that depicts a woman lying in a shallow body of water from the play Hamlet?
What is Ophelia
Where could you see informative texts?
What are "how-to" books, newspapers, textbooks, reference materials, and research papers
What is a thesis statement?
What is the "anchor" or What is the statement that is the main idea of an essay.
What Shakespearean play is this quote from 'Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble'
What is Macbeth
If you say someone has “cold feet,” this is an example of what literary device?
What is an idiom
The name of Jack Sparrow's ship
What is The Black Pearl
This order usually refers to steps in a process or event- we see/use it in informative writing.
What is sequential/ logical order
To state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
What is a claim
BONUS -Double Points
What metric line is used in traditional English poetry and verse drama?
What is Iambic pentameter
What is oxymoron
Double Points
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is a genre
What story(s) will we read in this unit?
What is Animal Farm and "The Pedestrian"
What is the name of the format we use for essays?
What is MLA formating
Where are Shakespeare's plays performed today?
What is The Globe Playhouse or The Wooden O
What types of literary device is being used below?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
- “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
What is personification
Fill in the blank- The _____ was a symbol of
war for the ________.
What are dragon and Vikings