The lesson/meaning usually at the end of the passage.
What is the theme?
100
Directions to make a paper airplane.
1. Fold a sheet of paper in half, lengthwise.
2. Fold the top corners towards the center.
3. Fold the angled edges towards the center.
4. Fold along the center crease.
5. Fold down the two top flaps to make the wings.
What is to inform?
200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The book weighed a ton!
What is a hyperbole?
200
Words that describe a person or thing in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
200
Types of writing: mystery, adventure, non-fiction, essay, poem, drama.
What is the genre?
200
An article where the author argues that an IPhone is better that a Galaxy.
What is to persuade?
300
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
The ocean danced in the moonlight.
What is personification?
300
Words that join two parts of a sentence and help to show the connection between the two parts of the sentence.
What is a conjunction?
300
The overall idea of the text usually found at the beginning of a passage.
What is the main idea?
300
A speech listing the negative effects of smoking and urging young people not to smoke.
What is to persuade?
400
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification?
400
He was a stainless steel ruler, tall, straight and always measured in response.
What is a metaphor?
400
Words that are used in place of nouns in a sentence. The noun being replaced is known as the antecedent.
What is a pronoun?
400
The reason the writer has to write: persuade, entertain, or inform. PIE
What is the author's purpose?
400
A booklet containing the school rules and consequences for violating those rules.
What is to inform?
500
The repetition of consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words.
What is alliteration?
500
Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old battleship.
What is a simile?
500
A word or group of words that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that usually acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun.
What is a preposition?
500
How the writing is organized: description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, chronological.
What is the text structure?
500
A play about two young people who fall in love, but cannot be together and end up having a tragic love story.