8 Parts of Speech
Identify the part of speech for the highlighted word. Sarah submitted her application to become a management trainee.
What is a verb?
Highlighting main ideas, underlining key arguments, writing margin summaries, marking unfamiliar terms, or adding personal reactions to the text are examples of what term in English?
What is an annotation?
Identify what term explains the ability to move from one idea to another within your paragraphs.
What is a transition (words or phrases)?
Identify the literary term defined as exaggeration for emphasis or effect. Example: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse".
What is a hyperbole?
The person responsible for defining the three fundamental persuasive appeals in rhetoric.
Who is Aristotle?
Identify the part of speech for the highlighted word. She decided to wear a suit instead of a dress to the interview.
What is a noun?
Information is analyzed and studied to identify patterns, then presented numerically in the body of an essay. In persuasive essays or speeches, the writer or speaker often includes two methods for how best to accomplish this. Name them both...
What are facts and statistics?
Identify the part of a five paragraph essay that relates back to the remaining point mentioned in the thesis statement.
What is a topic Sentence?
Identify the literary term for words that imitate sounds. Example: "Buzz," "Hiss," "Pop".
What is an onomatopoeia?
This persuasive appeal employs metaphors, similes, and other literary devices to create vivid imagery according.
What is pathos?
What part of speech modifies (describes) a verb, adjective or another adverb and usually ends in "ly" Example: lovely
What is an adverb?
Identify the term for a brief story told to convey a point.
What is an anecdote?
What part of the five paragraph essay revisits your overall purpose for writing and often invites your reader to consider the implications of why your ideas are significant.
What is a conclusion?
Identify the literary term defined as a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
What is an allusion?
This persuasive appeal establishes the speaker's authority and trustworthiness in the eyes of the audience.
What is ethos?
Examples of this part of speech include: and, or, but
What is a conjunction?
Identify the term for the central claim or argument around which the essay or speech revolves.
What is the thesis?
Identify the literary term that means that all ideas in a paragraph are closely related to its topic sentence and further develop that topic sentence.
What is paragraph unity?
"The wind whispered secrets" is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
This persuasive appeal presents arguments in a clear and organized manner, using deductive and inductive reasoning.
What is logos?
Many words can function as different parts of speech depending on how they are used. For example, “laugh” can be an example of what TWO parts of speech?
The word “laugh” can be a noun (e.g., “I like your laugh”) or a verb (e.g., “don’t laugh”).
What is a noun or a verb?
What supports your ability to formulate your own opinion and analysis of an essay?
What is textual evidence?
Generally, a well-developed paragraph has at least five to eight of these.
What are supporting sentences?
Poetic devices, rhetorical devices, or figures of speech are other names for what term in literature?
What are literary devices?
The total amount of appeals that a strong argument will typically utilize.
What is the number 3?