Grammar
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
What CER stands for.
What is claim, evidence, reasoning?
A literary device comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The type of genre that has different characters, scenes, and stage directions.
What is drama?
The Millbury team/mascot.
What are the Woolies?
The type of sentence this is: Went to the store and bought apples.
What is a fragment?
The explanation of why the evidence is important in an argument.
What is reasoning?
A literary device where an object/thing takes on human-like qualities.
What is personification?
The universal message an author is trying to get across.
What is theme?
Mrs. DesRosiers daughters' names.
Who are Amy and Lynn?
Sticky, red, kind, and bumpy are all examples of this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
The statement or stance a writer takes on a topic.
What is a claim?
When two lines mimic or look like each other in poetry.
What is parallel structure?
The point-of-view a writer takes when using the pronoun "I".
What is first person POV?
The author that visited our school in the Fall.
Who is Jarrett Lerner?
The two parts that make a complete sentence.
What is subject and predicate?
The oppositional stance or opposing side.
What is counterpoint/counterclaim?
A literary device that makes a sound such as BOOM or SHHHHH.
What is onomatopoeia?
The part of the plot after the conflict is introduced and before the climax.
What is the rising action?
Where Miss Murphy went to college.
What is Syracuse University?
The extra part of a sentence that modifies and tells who/when/where something is taking place. Ex: After several minutes we located the key to the door.
What is a prepositional phrase?
The type of evidence that is from personal experience.
What is an anecdote?
When poem lines run onto the next without punctuation.
What is enjambment?
The term used to describe the development of a character in a fiction text.
The best teaching team.
Who are Mrs. DesRosiers and Miss Ferris?