Genre
A genre of writing and storytelling created from imagination, using invented characters, settings, and events.
What is FICTION?
Educated guess based on clues.
(Hint: not directly stated)
What is an INFERENCE?
When we use words in a creative way, NOT LITERALLY, to make our writing and speech more interesting and vivid.
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
A punctuation mark that indicates a "full stop". Expresses the end of a sentence and sometimes abbreviations.
What is a PERIOD?
ELA stands for...
(Hint: E.L.A.)
What is ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS?
A genre of writing that focuses on presenting real-world information and facts, rather than fictional stories.
What is NONFICTION?
Saying something is true, and you have evidence to back it up. An answer to a question.
Example: In my opinion, dogs make better pets than cats.
What is a CLAIM or THESIS?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a SIMILE?
A punctuation mark that indicates a brief pause or separation between parts of a sentence.
(Hint: separates items in a list)
What is a COMMA?
What is the subject in the sentence: After lunch, the students went to the library?
What is THE STUDENTS?
A type of writing where something puzzling happens, and the goal is to figure out what it is and how it happened.
What is the genre of MYSTERY?
Using specific words or information from a text (like a book or article) to prove your ideas or answers.
(Hint: providing PROOF)
What is TEXTUAL EVIDENCE?
A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, but WITHOUT using “like” or “as”.
(Example: Her heart IS pure gold.)
What is a METAPHOR?
This describes actions that are finished and happened before now.
What is PAST TENSE?
What we call the leading or main character in a story.
What is a PROTAGONIST?
A type of artistic writing that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions.
What is POETRY?
Explain, analyze, and add to the evidence to show how the evidence supports your claim.
(Hint: Claim, textual evidence, and...)
What is REASONING?
A big exaggeration, a way of saying something that isn’t actually true but makes a point more strongly.
(Example: Her smile was a mile high.)
What is a HYPERBOLE?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
(Example: The FURRY BLACK cat sat on MESSY bed.)
What is an ADJECTIVE?
The term for when something represents something else, like a dove symbolizing peace.
What is SYMBOLISM?
A type of writing that explores the idea of a perfect or near-perfect world or society.
What is UTOPIAN FICTION?
A writing assignment where they take a stand on a topic and try to convince someone else to agree with them, using reasons and evidence.
(Hint: You wrote 3 of these this year.)
What is an ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY?
When you give human qualities, like talking or feeling, to something that isn’t human, like an animal, object, or idea.
(Example= The trees danced in the wind.)
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A word that describes a verb, telling us more about how, when, where, or to what extent something is done.
(Example: She sings LOUDLY.)
What is an ADVERB?
The purpose of a hook in an essay or story.
What is TO GRAB THE READERS ATTENTION?