Grammar
What is a noun?
A category or type of literature.
What is genre?
A paragraph that includes a summary of your argument and a strong closing thought.
What is a conclusion?
A conflict in which the protagonist must overcome a force of nature.
What is man vs. nature?
Protagonist of Holes.
Who is Stanley?
An action, state of existing, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The last sentence of your introductory paragraph, this sentence maps out what you will say in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The background information that is given at the beginning of a story.
What is exposition?
The occupation of Mary Maloney's husband in Lamb to the Slaughter.
What is a detective?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Referencing something without directly discussing it.
What is an allusion?
A reason your give to support your argument, which is supported by evidence and reasoning.
What is a claim?
An idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme?
Canned peaches that have been left for 100 years.
What is sploosh?
Words that describe the action a subject is doing, but not the subject.
What is a predicate?
A collection of poems or other type of literature.
What is an anthology?
Sits at the beginning of your thesis statement, and is a recognition of your opposition's most important counter-argument.
What is a concession?
Allowing the reader to come to their own conclusions about a character based on behavior, speech, and appearance.
What is Indirect Characterization?
A reading strategy used to determine what Patrick Maloney said to his wife, Mary, that upset her.
What is an inference?
A group of words that contain a subject and predicate.
What is a clause?
A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two.
What is a metaphor?
A response to counter-arguments to your position, including an acknowledgment and counter-reasoning.
What is a counterclaim?
A story element that includes (but is not limited to) day, year, time period, weather, and environment.
What is setting?
The poet who wrote An Introduction to Poetry, which says "I ask them to take a pome and hold it up to the light like a color slide".