Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
Pictures, diagrams, charts, graphs, or other media that illustrate the information in the essay.
What are text features?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
A stone marker set at the head of a grave
a headstone
a struggle between a person or an outside force
What is external conflict
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
An alphabetical list of all the sources you used in your essay with web addresses, dates, and author's names for reference.
What is a Works Cited page?
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
Another word for unwise
What is imprudent
a sign or warning of whats going to happen next
What is foreshadowing
When you state the name of another author, company, or website AND the date of publication at the end of a sentence in which you used someone else's words, but did not plagiarize, within your essay.
What is an in-text citation?
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When something is sticking out in a way that blocks or constricts.
What is protruding?
visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery
The basis of an argument from which reasoning proceeds is the...
What is a premise?
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
An assertion of something as a fact within an essay or argument.
What is the claim?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
Medicine has a history spanning many thousands of years and specialized establishments for treating the sick have also existed for eons. Despite the fact that function of hospitals have not changed much during the last century, technological and scientific progress has made possible treatment approaches that could not have been implemented a hundred years ago and made a large contribution to health care. The main differences between hospitals today and a century ago are improved surgical techniques, the safer use of anesthesia, and safer childbirth procedures.
What is compare and contrast?
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
a comparison between two things: _______is to_______as_________is to___________
What is analogy