Author's Craft Moves
A Comparison of two things not using 'like' or 'as'
What is a metaphor?
the lesson or moral of a story.
What is theme?
What is a semicolon?
What is a hook?
This story is about a young boy who found himself through a new name.
What is "Gren's Ghost"?
Explicitly telling the reader what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
Happening or existing at the same time.
What is simultaneous?
A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
This part of the paragraph connects the hook and the thesis.
What is a bridge?
A recurring element that appears in the story, often helps to develop mood/theme.
What is a motif?
An educated guess made from observations.
What is an inference?
This is an example of what kind of error:
"She ran to the store, there were no eggs."
What is a comma splice?
A watery light Touched bleak the granite bridge, and white Without the slightest tinge of gold, The city shivered in the cold.
What is personification?
Making notes while reading to help with understanding and answering questions.
What is annotation?
The intentional use of words to emphasize an important style/detail.
What is diction?
A large-scale disaster, misfortune, or failure.
What is a catastrophe?
Contains a subject and a predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
What is a call to action?
What is quoting (citing)?
A group of words, or saying, that has a different meaning than their literal definition.
What is an idiom?
A reason for doing something; something that stimulates action.
What is an incentive?
A word or phrase that joins a dependent clause to an independent clause. (It requires a comma after the dependent clause.)
What is a subordinating conjunction?
What is a thesis?
Wrote the story"Seventh Grade"
Who is Gary Soto?