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Narrative
Plot Diagram
Argument
Process
Figurative Language
100
How should you start your narrative essay?
Lead
100
What is the first step of the plot and what is it's purpose?
Exposition: explains the setting and characters
100
What is the purpose of an argument essay?
Persuade and inform
100
What is the first step of the writing process?
Brainstorming
100
What compares 2 unalike things using like or as?
Simile
200
What is a narrative essay?
A story (made up or true)
200
What is the second step of the plot and what is it's purpose?
Rising Action: Obstacles the characters face before they get to the BIG action in the story
200
What are the 3 things you need in your introduction of your argument essay? (in order)
1. Hook 2. Transition and Summary 3. Thesis Statement/Claim
200
What is the second step of the writing process?
Rough Draft
200
What is it called when you give inanimate objects human characteristics?
personification
300
What is the purpose of a narrative essay?
Entertain
300
What is the third step of the plot and what is it's purpose?
Climax: This is the BIG action part of the story, the goal the character needed to complete.
300
What do you need in your conclusion to make it a really super closing?
1. Restate your thesis/claim 2. summarize what you talked about 3. challenge/wise thought/question
300
What are the third and fourth steps of the writing process?
Revise and Edit
300
What is an extreme exaggeration?
Hyperbole
400
What is sensatory writing? (list all the types)
hear, smell, see, touch, taste
400
What is the fourth step of the plot and what is it's purpose?
Falling Action: What happens after the climax, getting back to the real world
400
What are the 3 types of hooks?
1. Rhetorical Question 2. Surprising Fact 3. Anecdote
400
What is the second to last step in the writing process?
Conferencing
400
What is it called when you use noise in your writing?
onomatopoeia
500
What are the 3 types of leads?
Dialogue, Action, Reaction
500
What is the last step of the plot and what is it's purpose?
Ties everything up, leaving the reader satisfied.
500
What is the difference between an argument essay and a persuasive essay?
Both give your opinion, but argument essays use evidence to prove your opinion.
500
What is the last step of the writing process?
Publishing (final draft)
500
What is a saying such as "old as dirt" called?
idiom