Grammar
A part of speech that describes things, people, feelings and other types of nouns.
What is an adjective?
The end of a narrative when the conflict is solved and the story ends.
What is the resolution?
Authors use these to make stories more descriptive and interesting.
What are elaboration techniques?
This is the last sentence of a paragraph.
What is a concluding sentence?
This acronym helps writers remember how to summarize a story.
What is SWBST?
This is a part of speech that names people, places and things.
What is a noun?
The beginning of a story where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
This is the message that the author wants the reader to get from the story.
What is theme?
This sentence introduces the subject and tells the readers what the paper will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
This character planted lima beans in honor of her father.
Who is Kim?
Authors use this to show when people are speaking.
What are quotation marks?
The main problem that the story is about.
What is the central conflict?
This form of figurative language imitates a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
These are the main parts of an explanatory paragraph and they are found in the body of the paragraph.
What is evidence and reasoning?
This character planted tomatoes to win back his girlfriend.
Who is Curtis?
This is a part of speech that describes actions.
What is an adverb?
The theme of this story is that nature can be healing and can bring people together.
What is Seedfolks?
This is a technique a writer uses that includes sight, sound, smell, taste and feeling.
What are sensory details?
This introduces the main claims, or ideas, of the writing.
What is the purpose of the topic sentence?
Why did the children hate Margo?
Margo had lived on earth
This part of speech names specific people, places or things.
What is a proper noun?
This science fiction story takes place on a planet other than earth.
What is All Summer in a Day?
A technique a writer uses to show a character's inner self.
What are internal characteristics?
These phrases are used to make sentences flow more smoothly into one another.
What are transitions?
This is a short story told through letters or a conversation.
What is an epistolary?
This is the term used when characters speak and their words are shown in quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
This genre of writing tells about short, important moments in someone's life.
What is a personal narrative?
These techniques are used by writers, especially poets, to make writing more interesting.
What is figurative language?
This is the purpose of the concluding sentence
What is to summarize the main points?
This tells the main concept to be learned in a lesson.
What is a Learning Target?
This type of overly long sentence has too many ideas in one sentence.
What is a run on sentence?
This genre of creative writing includes real or imaginary science and technology.
What is science fiction?
These forms of figurative language compare one thing to something else.
What are similes and metaphors?
This is how different paragraphs are set apart in a piece of text.
What does it mean to indent?
This is the setting of the story Seedfolks.
What is the Gibb Street Garden?