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Figurative Language
Types of Writing
Prose and Cause+Effect
Narrative Elements
Essay
100
"ch-ch-chooo-chooo"
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
What is writing about someone else's life?
Biography
100
Examples of this include biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, anecdotes, epistolary writing, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
What is prose?
100
The order/sequences of events in a story.
What is the plot?
100
The main point of the essay is also called this.
What is the thesis statement?
200
"The wind kicked me as I tried to make it back home."
What is personification?
200
What is writing about your own life?
Autobiography
200
This is not poetry
What is prose?
200
Background/time-frame of a story
What is the setting?
200
Main point to a PARAGRAPH
What is the topic sentence?
300
"I could sleep for a whole year after that run I had."
What is hyperbole?
300
This has five parts with a thesis statement and topic sentences?
What is an essay?
300
The first of events.
What is the cause?
300
The highest point in the story
What is the climax?
300
Sentence that supports the main idea of a paragraph.
What is the supporting sentence?
400
"My class is so hyper like my two dogs when I let them out of the gate."
What is a simile?
400
Writing that involves a story
What is a narrative?
400
The outcome, or the 2nd thing that happens
What is an effect?
400
A character who changes in the story.
What is an active character?
400
The engaging first sentence of an essay or story.
What is the hook?
500
"I ran over a first-aid kit and hurt myself."
What is irony?
500
Writing that is in a diary or a letter?
What is epistolary writing?
500
"I ate the apple, and I spit it out, and I got sick after." (Cause and effect...what is ____, ____, and ____?)
What is cause, effect, and effect?
500
This is another word for the conclusion of the story (part of the five-piece basic story structure)
What is the resolution?
500
This is how long an essay should be.
What are 6-8 sentences?