Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
This is when readers analyze the format of a text.
What is identify text structure?
This is the main message or moral of a story.
What is theme?
This is the main point an author is trying to make in an argumentative essay.
What is a claim or a thesis?
This is the definition of a homograph.
What are words that are spelled the same but are not necessarily pronounced the same nor have the same meaning?
An action or linking word.
What is a verb?
What is an autobiography?
This is when an author provides hints or clues of what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
Good writers of narratives should always begin with this.
What is an engaging hook?
This is the definition of alliteration.
When two or more words in a row start with the same sound.
A word that modifies or describes nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
A writer may write this to provide the general gist of an article or text.
These are three types of external conflict.
What are man vs. man, man vs. society, or man vs. nature?
When writing informational essays or argumentative texts, a good writer always includes AT LEAST this many reasons/body paragraphs.
What is three?
This is the definition of a prefix.
A word part that comes at the beginning.
A word that modifies or describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
What is an adverb?
Provide five examples of text features.
What are...
captions
titles/headings
subtitles/subheadings
photographs/graphs/illustrations
Typically, every novel has these two types of characters who oppose one another.
What is a protagonist and an antagonist?
What are a parenthetical citation and an in-text citation?
This is when an author makes references to other famous things from pop-culture, history, etc.
What is an allusion?
A word that joins together ideas, clauses, or phrases.
What is a conjunction?
Name THREE types of context clues that a reader can look for when trying to identify an unknown word's meaning.
What are definitions, examples, or synonyms?
This famous author of science fiction short stories often utilizes figurative language and symbolism to convey themes.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
When writing dialogue, writers need to do this every time a new speaker speaks.
What is enter and indent?
This is a type of poetry that decreases or increases in syllable count and is 9 lines.
What is a nonet?