Writing Skills
A type of writing where you talk about a topic by giving examples, arguments and anecdotes is called an...
What is an essay?
Give the closest word for sadness.
Sorrow
Destruction
Privation
Sorrow is a synonym of sadness.
Destruction is the state of being destroyed.
Privation is the state of suffering from a lack of resources to live.
He likes you.
Likes is an example of a:
A. Simple present tense
B. Simple past tense
C. Future tense
A. Simple present tense
Which figurative language is used in this sentence:
Sir Moss is like an owl.
What is a simile?
What do we call the texts that are a product of our imagination?
What is a fiction text?
This is a 5-7-5-7-7 poem.
(5 refers to the number of syllables per line).
A. HaikuB. Tanka
C. Limerick
D. Cinquain
E. Quatrain
What is B (Tanka)?
I will give the word - this word is a synonym of the word PROMISING.
AUSPICIOUS
There are people around me and they are scary.
What is this sentence?
A. Simple sentence
B. Compound sentence
C. Complex sentence
B. Compound sentence: Two simple sentences with a connective.
There are people around me
and
they are scary.
Metonym: Choose the word that best represents the government of the United States of America.
A. London
B. Washington, D.C.
C. Paris
B. Washington, D.C.
(A metonym is a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington is a metonym for the federal government of the US.)
What do we call the titles at the top of each topic in a non-fiction text?
What are subheadings?
How many paragraphs should an essay have?
Three to five paragraphs
Give me one example of antonyms:
big-smalltall-short
Who are you?
This is an example of a...
Interrogative sentence/question
Choose which one is not a metaphor.
A. Love is a battlefield.
B. Baby, you’re a firework.
C. The wind howled in the night.
C. The wind howled in the night - this is an example of a metaphor!
What do we call non-fiction texts that are not bound by time?
What are non-chronological texts?
What is a paragraph?
A paragraph is a group of sentences that focuses on one topic or thought.
Give me a stronger verb for sleep.
drowse, slumber, nap
She sat on the table.
Give me the article and the preposition that is used in the sentence.
The is a definite article (referring to the table).
"on" is a preposition (which allows us to see where the subject (She) did the action (sat)).What do Ronald Reagan, Dunkin Donuts and sweet birds sang have in common?
They are all alliterations! Look at the first letter of each word:
RR
DD
s_s
What is a playscript?
How many inches should we give for margins in our papers?
One and a half inch to the left; one inch to the top, right and bottom.
If you don't have a ruler, use your thumb to measure the margin.Give me a stronger adjective for the word small or tiny.
nanoscopic, miniscule, microscopic
Sir Ilyan, who is tall, makes me scared.
What is the main clause of this sentence?
Sir Ilyan makes me scared.
(who is tall) is a subordinate clause. Why? It describes the subject in further detail.
What is the pattern of this stanza?
“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there’s some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.”
shake (A)
mistake (same as A)
sweep (only one different)
flake (same as A)
So, we can say it is AABA.
What do you call the meaning that does not exist in the text, but is inferred through the use of context clues?
What is implied meaning?