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Critical Reading
The Body Paragraph/Essay Structure
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Punctuation Nation
Yay! Yay! MLA!
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The answers to THESE kinds of questions are found directly in the text.
What is at READING COMPREHENSION QUESTION?
100
The single-focused statement of a persuasive essay.
What is the THESIS STATEMENT?
100
Two independent clauses separated by a comma.
What is a COMMA SPLICE?
100
The punctuation mark that indicates a full stop.
What is a PERIOD?
100
The way in which sources are organized on an MLA Works Cited page.
What is ALPHABETICAL ORDER according to the first word/name in the entry.
200
THIS SKILL helps you determine the meaning of words by using other words and phrases in the sentence.
What is a CONTEXT CLUE?
200
A phrase that most often comes before a concrete detail to introduce it.
What is a LEAD-IN/SIGNAL PHRASE?
200
IDENTIFY THE ERROR: Because I stayed up too late.
What is a SENTENCE FRAGMENT?
200
The punctuation mark that comes between a dependent clause and an independent clause in a complex sentence.
What is a COMMA?
200
The parenthetical citation found within the body of an essay.
What is an IN-TEXT CITATION?
300
To persuade, to describe, to entertain, to inform.
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?
300
The sentence that expands upon the main idea of the body paragraph.
What is a DEVELOPING SENTENCE?
300
A clause that is unable to stand alone.
What is a DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
300
The punctuation mark that corrects a comma splice?
What is a SEMI-COLON?
300
The formatting term to describe a longer quotation.
What is a BLOCK QUOTATION?
400
THESE kinds of questions involve drawing conclusions based on information that is not directly said.
What are INFERENCE QUESTIONS?
400
The three things all effective topic sentences must include.
What is use a transitional word/phrase, use language from the thesis statement, and introduce a new idea that will be the focus of the body paragraph.
400
The grammatical word for FANBOYS.
What is a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
400
The punctuation mark that indicates possession.
What is an APOSTROPHE?
400
The way a writer identifies the title of a longer work, like a book, a film, a newspaper, or a play.
What are ITALICS?
500
Ethos, Pathos, Logos.
What are different appeals a writer makes to his/her audience: ethics, emotions, logic.
500
The kinds of questions where the responses are implicit, often used as a hook.
What are RHETORICAL QUESTIONS?
500
A type of conjunction that marks a dependent clause. Examples include: "Although," "As," "If," "Because," "While," "During."
What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
500
The punctuation mark that indicates a title of an article.
What are QUOTATION MARKS?
500
The four characteristics of a block quotation.
What is 1) 4 lines or more in length, 2) No quotation marks, 3) Double-indented, and 4) In-text citation comes after the period.