This is a comparison of two things using LIKE or AS. Example: She is as quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
100
This part of a plot diagram gives the reader the SETTING, CHARACTERS, and TIME PERIOD of the story.
What is the Exposition?
100
This is a nonfiction story that someone writes about themselves.
What is an Autobiography?
100
This is your argument that you put usually in your first sentence of your first paragraph.
What is a Thesis Statement?
100
This is the first sentence in a paragraph. It can start with a question, a quote, a story, or a shocking fact.
What is a Hook?
200
This is a comparison of two seemingly unlike things. This does NOT use like or as. EX: He is a strong ox.
What is a metaphor?
200
This is the problem of the story.
What is the conflict?
200
This is a nonfiction story that someone writes about someone else.
What is a Biography?
200
You have to provide this in your essay to support your thesis statement. This comes directly from the text. (This word also starts with E)
What is Evidence?
200
This is the middle part of your paragraph, or essay, that provides the points you are writing about.
What is the Body?
300
This is a lesson about life that an author weaves into a story.
What is a theme?
300
This part of a story is the MOST IMPORTANT EVENT in the story, or the TURNING POINT.
What is the Climax?
300
This is a nonfiction text structure that shows the similarities and differences between two things.
What is Compare and Contrast?
300
You need to do this to EXPLAIN your evidence, and tell how it relates to your thesis statement.
What is Elaborate?
300
This is the last sentence of your paragraph, or the last paragraph of your essay that sums everything up.
What is the Clincher?
400
This point of view is told from a character IN the story and usually uses the word "I".
What is first person?
400
This type of fiction is based on real-life events that COULD happen to anyone.
What is Realistic Fiction?
400
This is an nonfiction text structure that shows causes or effects.
What is Cause and Effect?
400
You do this when you put part of the question in your answer when you write short answer.
What is Write in Complete Sentences?
400
These are the people that you are writing for. For instance, if you are asked to write a letter to your Principal, your Principal is this. It is also the A in PACO.
What is Audience?
500
This point of view is told from someone outside of the story, looking in.
What is third person?
500
This type of fiction is based on events that happened in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
500
These four reasons (to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to reflect on an experience) are why an author writes nonfiction texts.
What is Author's Purpose?
500
An essay should have this many paragraphs.
What is Five?
500
This is used to show conversation between two characters in a Narrative.