summarizing
affixes
writing
history
literary devices
100

Every summary needs one of these; found at the beginning of a paragraph

What is a topic sentence?

100

This suffix means state, quality, act

What is ion or ity?

100

This common shape is used as a metaphor for planning any piece of writing.

What is an hour glass?

100

This location is believed to be the cradle of civilization.

What is Mesopotamia?

What is the Fertile Crescent?

100

If the pronunciation of a word sounds like the sound it makes it is known as this literary devices.

What is onomatopoeia?

200

The topic sentence of a summary is best explained using a metaphor of this object?

What is an umbrella?

200

This root is another word for "middle"

What is "meso?"

200

"Firm Position" is another expression for this important element in a piece of argument writing.

What is a thesis statement?

What is a controlling idea?

200

The big transition from Paleolithic to the Neolithic age was largely due to this activity by Stone-Agers.

What is developing permanent shelters?

What is farming?

200

This is the distinguishing difference between a metaphor and a simile.

What is a metaphor uses is or was and a simile uses like or as?

300
Figuring out this element of an article is a big key to writing an effective summary.

What is the author's organizational pattern?

300

This kind of scientist would use these roots:

geo

therm

chron/o

meter

What is a geologist?

What is a vulcanologist?

300

This part of a well-written piece of writing should leave the reader with something to think about.

What is a satisfying ending?

What is the conclusion?

300

This river was important in the culture and economy of Ancient Egypt.

What is the Nile River?

300

Two literary terms define the following examples.

A writer uses the word 'cold' to describe the temperature outside.

A writer uses the word 'cold' to describe tension in a relationship.

What are denotation and connotation?

400

This illegal action is something to avoid like the plague when writing a summary.

What is plagiarism?

400

These two root words have opposite meanings: 

"one" and "many"

What is "mono" and "poly?"

400

These four actions are used by writers in the revision process.

What are changing, adding, moving, and deleting?


400

In Egypt's social pyramid men could rise to a higher social status by doing this.

What is becoming a scribe?

400
An example of this kind of irony is employed when a writer lets the reader in on a secret that one of the characters doesn't know about but is totally affected by.

What is dramatic irony?

500

When writing a summary, your goal is to give this accurate overview of the main ideas, also known as...

What is the gist?

500

the literal meaning of this made-up word andropathic

andro   path   ic

What is "related to the feelings of a male?"

500

These three modes of writing are part of the main CCSS expectations for Aspire writers.

What are narrative, expository, and argument?

500

These seven characteristics determine whether or not a group of people is qualified to be considered a civilization

What is:

stable food supply

social structure

system of government

religious system

highly developed culture

technology and

writing?

500

A blogger writing to explain a difficult concept using the example of different aspects of a space flight would be employing this literary device.

What is analogy?