Terms
The term for the feeling or emotional atmosphere of the text
What is mood?
Making a comparison between 2 unlike things using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
Fix the 2 mistakes in the following sentence:
My Niece is getting married next week in the Bahamas, unfortunately, we cannot afford to go.
What is:
Ny niece is getting married next week in the Bahamas; unfortunately, we cannot afford to go.
The second "step" in plot sequence that leads to the climax of a story. This introduces the conflict.
What is the rising action?
The thesis statement is comprised of these two things
What is your claim plus your 2 reasons?
The term for the first sentence in the introduction of an informative essay
What is a hook?
Giving human characteristics to non-humans.
What is personification?
Fill in the blank with the correct use of the words there, their, and they're:
The boys walked ___________ dog over __________ to the store; ______________ tired of all this walking.
What is their, there, they're?
Giving the reader a hint about something that will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
When adding text evidence to your essay, what should you always do to that text evidence?
(We write this term underneath evidence on our outline)
What is embed?
The term for using the words around a word that you may not know the meaning of in order to figure out what it means.
What is context clues?
An exaggeration that would likely never happen.
What is hyperbole?
Fix the 3 mistakes in the following sentence:
Peter has too see the picasso exhibit at the Beaumont museum of Modern Art in order to complete his report.
What is change too to to, capitalize Picasso, and capitalize Museum?
Referencing something from popular culture, literature, history, or the Bible.
What is an allusion?
When drawing your outline, these three things should be written under the word EXPLAIN.
What are 2-3 (sentences) and how/why?
The term that describes the attitude the author has regarding the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
When a comparison develops beyond one comparison into multiple lines, stanzas, or even an entire piece of literary work
What is an extended metaphor?
Fix the 5 mistakes in this sentence:
"How much further do we have to travel, Marci asked "before we reach shawns house?"
What is:
"How much farther do we have to travel," Marci asked, "before we reach Shawn's house?"
Another name that might be used on the STAAR test for the controlling idea or the central idea an author is trying to make
What is main idea?
The format that is used for short answer questions in STAAR.
You must also state what it stands for.
2 part question
What is RACE?
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain
The term for the very last sentence you should write in an informative essay.
What is universal lesson?
A contradiction between what you think should happen in a story and what actually happens.
What is irony?
Correct the mistakes in this sentence:
You're version of Emersons essay titled Self-Reliance is different from mine, do you know why.
What are ?
Your version of Emerson's essay titled "Self-Reliance" is different from mine. Do you know why?
The words that FANBOYS stand for.
In this sentence, the purpose of the FANBOYS.
We walked to the store, and we bought a loaf of bread.
2 part question
What are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
They are used to combine two complete sentences (this is a compound sentence).
Look at this sentence:
Although private schools likely have smaller class sizes, public schools offer many more benefits for students.
What kind of sentence is this called?
When and where would you use it?
What is a concession/refutation?
What is in the introduction of a persuasive essay?