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True or False? Using the thesaurus will improve your score on the writing.
What is True?
100
A short work of nonfiction explaining or persuasion.
What is an essay?
100
Novel, Short story, poetry, drama, nonfiction . . . or . . . fantasy, reality, mystery, romance, science fiction--for example.
What is genre?
100
A combination of two independent clauses without any connecting punctuation.
What is a run on sentence?
100
A situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
What is irony?
200
If you write too big and sloppy it will knock down your score. True or False?
What is true?
200
How many lines should you fill up to impress the scorer?
What is 26 full lines!
200
A sequence of events in a narrative work.
What is plot?
200
Punctuation that is typically used to separate dependent and independent clauses
What is a comma?
200
The use of words to imitate sound
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
What section of the test should you look at in case you get writer's block on the essay to help you?
What is the revise and edit?
300
Central message of a story that readers can apply to life?
What is theme?
300
The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative. Sometimes called the turning point.
What is climax?
300
DAILY DOUBLE Punctuation that separates, but connects, two independent clauses
What is a semi colon?
300
The use of words or images in literature to represent larger ideas?
What is symbolism?
400
What are the three parts of the SAQ to get a 3?
What is answer, textual evidence, and explanation and link to real world (answer WHY)
400
The writer's choice of words; an important element in the writer's voice or style.
What is diction?
400
These are the five stages of the plot diagram (in order)
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
400
Punctuation that typically introduces a list
What is a colon :
400
What was the topic on the paired short answer we did this week?
What is smoking?
500
Who should you list in your body to impress the person scoring your essay?
What is a famous person/president/celebrity!
500
The use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Act naturally, seriously funny, liquid gas, and act naturally are all examples of this . . .
What is oxymoron?
500
The rhyming of initial consonant sounds of words in close proximity in a line or sentence
What is alliteration?
500
This narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts of only one character but refers to that character as "he" or "she."
What is third person narrator?