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All About WRITING!
ALL ABOUT ESSAYS
100
Textual Evidence
What is what the text says? The clues?
100
What is a narrator?
The voice telling the story
100
What is a Thesis Statement?
What is the main idea of a paper that has three main points?
100
In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different
What is Compare and Contrast
200

What is the exposition?

Beginning of a story

200
Define Main Idea
The main point or message of a story or article
200

List two transition words

simple, compount, complex, compound-complex

200
In this essay, things are presented according to the order in which they happened (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
What is Time-Order or Chronological, or Sequence
300
Define Inference
(Answer Varies)
300

Define: Character

The people or animals in a story

300
What are two compare and contrast keywords?
Ex: both, on the other hand, etc
300
In this part of an essay, you have the hook and claim or thesis
What is the intro?
400
Define Theme

Lesson or message the author wants you to learn

400

What type of figurative language: She is as quick as a jaguar.

Simile

400
Define Counterargument
Opposing argument to the claim
400
This part of the essay leaves a reader with a lasting thought.
What is the conclusion?
500
Make an Inference about Merab: Merab is smiling as she looks at her cake glowing with candles and all of her wrapped presents.
What is Merab is happy, because it is her birthday?
500

Define hyperbole

Exaggeration

500

What should you do after reading the prompt?

Do/What Chart

500
Define: Claim
A statement that is debatable