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PARTS OF SPEECH
FIGURATIVE LANG
FOR WRITERS
SPELLING
FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAYS
100
Person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
100
His eyes were like the mountain sky.
What is a SIMILE?
100
The repetition of beginning sounds of words in poetry or prose. The creepy cat caught the mouse.
What is ALLITERATON?
100
All the students were in ATTENDENCE.
What is attendance?
100
The very first part of the paragraph that gets you interested.
What is HOOK OR LEAD?
200
Mrs. Zook, Mrs. Kuhns, Chambersburg PA, English
What are PROPER NOUNS?
200
The game became a quicksand of passion for us.
What is a METAPHOR?
200
a biography told by the person whose life it is
What is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
200
THERE parents are taking them to Disney.
What is THEIR?
200
What is the last sentence in the first paragraph called?
What is THESIS?
300
You, me, who, we, which
What are PRONOUNS? They take the place of other nouns or pronouns.
300
The lights hummed a little tune when the teacher turned them on.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
Leaning toward on side in an argument.
What is BIAS?
300
The ARGUEMENT would not stop.
What is ARGUMENT?
300
Three paragraphs
What is BODY?
400
Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Teenagers NEARLY ALWAYS have their own way of talking.
What are ADVERBS?
400
It rained all day that my house was floating down the road.
What are HYPERBOLES?
400
The feeling about a scene.
What is MOOD?
400
The science EXPERAMENT was successful.
What is EXPERIMENT?
400
The last paragraph
What is CONCLUSION?
500
Could be replaced by a noun. RUNNING was Jason's best sport. SEEING a horror movie can rattle your nerves.
What is a GERUND?
500
Quiet as a mouse; pretty as a picture; come rain or shine; big as a house; it's a piece of cake.
What are CLICHES?
500
The act of checking work to discover errors.
What is PROOFREADING?
500
Please be very CAREFULL about what you say in class.
What is CAREFUL?
500
The writer should "restate" in the last paragraph.
What is THESIS STATEMENT?