The Introduction
This is where the introduction belongs in an essay.
What is at the beginning?
These are used in the body to support claims.
What are specific details, evidence, or quotes?
This punctuation mark comes before a quote and after he said?
What is a comma?
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is simile?
This is the verb in the sentence: The angry cat growled at the man.
What is growled?
This is the type of information that leads up to the thesis statement (or claim).
What is background information?
This is what a topic sentence in a body paragraph should do.
What is relate back to the thesis and explain what this particular paragraph is going to be about?
This goes around a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
The angry man was a wolf on the prowl, looking for trouble.
What is metaphor?
Seems is this type of verb in the following sentence: Susan seems happy.
What is a linking verb?
This is your opinion on the topic.
What is the claim or thesis statement?
This is where the conclusion goes.
What is at the end of an essay?
These appear in parenthesis when citing a work.
What is the author's last name and page number?
The wind cried though the storm.
What is personification?
These two words are verbs in the following sentence: She hoped to go to the movies and watch The Lion King.
What are hoped and watch?
This is something that grabs the readers' attention and makes them want to keep reading?
What is a hook?
This is what you do with your main points and topic sentences when writing the conclusion.
What is rephrase?
This is where the period goes in the following example:
"Not all those who wander are lost" (Tolkien 1)
What is after the parenthesis?
This was the worst day in all of history.
What is hyperbole?
What is to find?
Name one type of hook.
What is :
one word hook,
rhetorical question,
or interesting fact?
This is a word or phrase that helps one body paragraph flow smoothly into another by explain the relationship between the two.
What are transitional words and phrases?
This is where a parenthetical citation goes.
What is after the quote?
These two literary devises are present in the following sentence: Jane so fast. She was a racecar screeching around the corner.
What are metaphor and onomatopoeia?
This is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: He went to the park to find his friend.
What is to the park?