Define
a serious disagreement or argument.
Conflict
a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
Onomatopoeia
your argument or insight or viewpoint crystallized into a sentence or two that gives the reader your main idea.
Thesis
are words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs. Makes a piece of writing flow better.
Transitions
a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause, e.g., although, because.
Subordinating conjunctions
when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal meaning. (Metaphors, similes)
Figurative language
pattern of lines in a poem or a stanza.
“Twinkle, Twinkle little star.”
Rhyme Scheme
is a particular issue or idea that serves as the subject of a paragraph, essay, report, or speech.
Topic
A word used to describe an action.
Verbs
Also, therefore
Transition words
a warning or indication of a future event.
Foreshadow
writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic, in order to influence the audience.
Persuasive techniques
the logical bridge between words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Coherence
Names for a collection or a number of people or things.
Collective nouns
a shortened form of a word or phrase.
Abbreviations
an outline for the ideas to flow. (Chronological)
Organizational Pattern
the shaping of a reader’s point of view or perspective. It describes how readers’ thoughts and feelings may be shaped by.
Position
it’s the thesis, theme, controlling idea, main point.
Focus
Does not refer to any specific person, thing or amount. All, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything,
Indefinite pronouns
the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's name or a word forming part of a phrase.
Initials
its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another. “I felt sad thinking of the day/ that my dad left for war.”
Internal rhyme
the mind of the character through which the reader is told a story. It is the content and the language used to present the data.
Viewpoint
the way a writer writes.
Style
is a subject complement, a word or group of words that follows a linking verb or verb phrase such as is, am, were, smell, feel.
Predicate adjectives
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA ).
Acronyms