Planning
Five steps of the writing process
What are planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing?
Define topic sentence
What is expressing the main idea of a paragraph in a single sentence?
Define transitive verb
What is an action verb that transfers action to the receiver?
Define a noun
What is a person, place, thing or idea?
Define intensive pronoun
What is a pronoun that ends in -self or -selves and emphasizes its antecedent?
Term #2 The unique personality and manner expressed in writing
A brief personal account that illustrates the topic
What is incident/anecdote?
What is answers whom or what after a verb and answers to whom or for whom the aciton is done?
Identify the nouns below
A visit to the Tower of London is essential for anyone who visits England.
What is visit, Tower of London, and England?
Define relative pronoun and list two of them
What is a pronoun that appears in dependent clauses and starts an adjective clause? What is who, whom, whose, which, and that?
The difference between brainstorming and listing
What is a running list of ideas that interests you and listing everything that you can think of about a topic?
What is a fact?
Identify the verb in the sentence below
Throughout its interesting history, the boundaries associated with the Tower of London have expanded.
What is have expanded?
Identify the nouns below
Who has ever heard of Ranulf Flambard?
What is Ranulf Flambard?
Identify the type of pronoun(s) below.
Many thought he wanted the kingship for himself?
What is indefinite, personal, and reflexive?
Five general purposes for writing
What is to describe, to persuade, to entertain, to analyze, and to inform?
Difference between chronological order and spatial order
What is a presentation of events in order of their occurrence and a description according to how something is arranged physically?
Identify the verb(s) in the sentence below
After Richard the Lionhearted departed for the crusades, William Longchamp was regent.
What is departed and was?
Identify the nouns below
Not until 1350 did the Tower of London resemble its current size and design.
What is 1350, Tower of London, size, and design?
Identify the type of pronoun(s) below.
Flambard himself was the first political prisoner taken to the Tower of London.
What is intensive?
Thesis statements accomplish three things
What is restatement of thesis, prediction, call to action, question, summary, or anecdote?
Identify the verb(s) in the sentence below
Some new ditches were designed to fill with water from the Thames, but they never fulfilled the engineer's plan.
What is were designed and fulfilled?
Identify the nouns below
An aerial photograph of the structure reveals complexity; it consists of multiple towers and buildings sheltered behind protective walls and a moat.
What is photograph, structure, complexity, towers, buildings, walls, and moat?
Identify the type of pronoun(s) below.
When Flambard escaped from the Tower of London, the English people asked one another how he did it.
What is reciprocal and personal?