GRAMMAR AND PARTS OF SPEECH
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
Noun
The main idea of a text is…
What the text is mostly about
The writer’s main position in an argumentative essay is called the…
Claim
A comparison using like or as is called a…
simile
Homophones
These two words sound the same, but one means “to win against something,” and the other is the number after one.
two and too
This part of speech describes a noun.
Provide an example.
Adjective
What do we call the details that support the main idea?
Key Details
Evidence should come from where?
credible sources/texts
A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning is an…
idiom
What is the connotation of the word “skinny”—positive, negative, or neutral?
negative
Words like he, she, they, and it belong to which part of speech?
Pronouns
When a reader uses clues + background knowledge to figure something out, it’s called…
making an inference
The part of the essay that presents the other side’s viewpoint is called the…
counterclaim
“The wind whispered through the trees” is an example of…
personification
These two words sound the same, but one is an animal with antlers, and the other is a way to address someone you care about.
deer and dear
What is the complete subject in this sentence: “The tall, spotted giraffe ate leaves.”
The tall, spotted giraffe
If a text shows similarities and differences, it is using which text structure?
compare and contrast
When the writer explains why the counterclaim is weak or incorrect, it’s called the…
rebuttal
What is the meaning of the root bio-?
life
In the sentence:
“Jordan felt reluctant to present his project,”
what does reluctant mean based on context?
unwilling or nervous
Identify the prepositional phrase: “We walked through the dark tunnel.”
through the dark tunnel.”
What question should you ask to find the theme of a story?
What lesson does the character learn?
What does strong evidence do in an argumentative essay?
Back up/support the claim
If something is inevitable, what does it mean?
it is certain to happen or unaviodable
Greek & Latin Roots
If tele- means “distance” and graph means “write,” what does telegraph literally mean?
writing from far away