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Word Analysis
Reading Comprehension
Lit Response & Analysis
Writing Strategies
Writing Conventions
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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, using "like" or "as"
What is Simile
100
Words or phrases such as "however" "therefore" and "In addition" that signal a change in the passage.
What is Transition
100
Secondary characters
What is Subordinate Characters
100
The sentence that provides the main idea of the essay and the writer's perspective on the topic
What is Thesis
100
A group of words that expresses a complete thought
What is Sentence
200
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
What is metaphor
200
capturing in a single phrase what the entire passage is about.
What is Summarizing
200
The time and place that a story takes place
What is setting
200
the facts and details that are used to develop and explain main ideas
What is Supporting Evidence
200
An action word, such as walk, sing or laugh
What is Verb
300
When a writer gives an animal, plant, object, or idea some essentially human characteristics and traits
What is personification
300
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique,
What is Genre
300
Each main character in a story has reasons for his or her actions.
What is character Motivation
300
Details that make the reader feel like part of the action by appealing to the five senses
What is Sensory Details
300
A group of words with a subject and a verb, another word for a sentence
What is Clause
400
A character or object stands for something with a greater meaning
What is Symbolism
400
Any document that is meant to give information to employees at a workplace.
What is Workplace communication
400
A series of tools an author uses to introduce the character to the reader.
What is Characterization
400
When the subject of the sentence is receiving the action.
What is Passive Voice
400
Consists of two simple sentences joined by a connecting word called a coordinating conjunction
What is Compound Sentence
500
Words emotional meaning
What is Connotations
500
Level to which the text can be trusted
What is Credibility
500
Authors use a storyteller, or narrator, to tell their story
What is Point of View
500
When the subject of the sentence is receiving the action.
What is Active voice
500
One sentence runs into a second sentence, and there is not punctuation or conjunction in between
What is Run-On Sentence