All About Essays
The type of essay in which you argue a point and support it with evidence
What is Argumentative (persuasive) essay
The category a book can be classified under
The first sentence of an essay, meant to grab the reader's attention
What is a hook
The central message of a story
What is theme
The part of the essay writing process where you plan and organize your main ideas and supporting evidence before actually writing the essay.
What is the outline
Part of speech that refers to the action of the sentence
What is a verb
On a plot diagram, this is the longest part of a story.
What is rising action
The part of an informational book where all keywords and definitions can be found
What is the glossary
Headings, page numbers, and text boxes are all examples of
What are text features
The first thing you should do before writing an essay
Read the prompt/directions
Katy is dealing with depression, and struggling to find the motivation to leave the house. This is an example of what type of conflict?
Person vs. Self (internal conflict)
When you take another author's words, rephrase them, and give credit to the original author
What is paraphrase
This punctuation is needed when you use the author's exact words
What are quotation marks
The three main types of essay writing
What is narrative, informational (expository), and persuasive (argumentative)
A sentence that contains too many ideas and lacks punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence
When you get information from a text that is not explicitly stated.
What is an inference
(Huang, 2022). Is an example of
What is an in-text citation
The roadmap for your essay. Everything you write should be related to and refer back to this.
Thesis statement
A person, place, or thing that must be capitalized
What is a proper noun
The part of a book where you can find every page number that a certain word was mentioned
What is the index