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Vocabulary
100
Writing genre that tells a real or imagined story.
What is a Narrative?
100
The part in the plot of a story that has the most excitement.
What is the climax?
100
A punctuation mark that is used in the salutation of a professional letter or to indicate a list of items.
What is a colon (:) ?
100
Part of Speech that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Writing Genre that gives information.
What is Expository Writing?
200
The way that an informational text is organized.
What is a text structure? (cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological, and cause and effect.)
200
The Greek root word "auto" as in the word autobiography means this.
What is "self" ?
200
Sentence structure that has 2 independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
200
Clues that help the reader determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word as it is used in a sentence.
What are context clues?
300
First step in the writing process.
What is Prewriting?
300
The central idea of a literary selection.
What is a theme?
300
Writing genre that calls for the writer to argue his/her point.
What is Argumentative Writing?
300
A modifier that is in the wrong place in a sentence. For instance, I saw three bears on the way to class.
What is a misplaced or dangling modifier?
300
A play on words. For example, "I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down."
What is a pun?
400
A technique used to grab the readers attention in the beginning of the selection.
What is a "hook?"
400
An informational text is written for one of these purposes.
What is to inform, explain, persuade, or entertain?
400
The punctuation mark below is called a(n) (...)
What is an ellipses?
400
In the sentence below, the word swimming is used as which of the following: 1) Gerund 2) Noun Clause 3) Predicate Adjective Swimming is my favorite sport.
What is a gerund?
400
The following phrases are examples of this figurative language device: Break a leg Spill the beans On thin ice
What is an idiom?
500
A technique that counters your opposition when writing to argue.
What is a counterargument?
500
Point of view in which the main character is telling the story.
What is First Person Point of View?
500
A subordinate clause that is introduced by a relative pronoun.
What is an adjective clause?
500
Identify the predicate nominative in the sentence below: The winner of the game was she.
What is "she?" A noun or a pronoun after a linking verb is referred to as a predicate nominative. In this case, use a subject pronoun.
500
The denotation and connotation of a word refers to this.
What is the definition of the word (denotation), and what is the feelings that are associated with the word (connotation)? For instance, Slim has a positive connotation, while Skinny has a negative connotation. Both words have the same denotation (meaning/definition).