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An essay that tells a story.
What is a narrative essay?
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5WH
What is who/what/when/why/where/how?
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The three basic verb tenses.
What are past, present, and future?
100
The number of sentence patterns we discussed.
What is 4?
100
"The sky was a gray stone," is an example.
What is a metaphor?
200
An essay that gives examples.
What is an exemplification essay?
200
Giving a hint of what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
In what tense do subject-verb agreement errors usually occur?
What is present tense?
200
The term for a group of words that can stand alone.
What is independent clause?
200
The acronym to help us remember coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
300
An essay that gives details through sensory language.
What is a descriptive essay?
300
Giving human qualities to things that are not human.
What is personification?
300
In present tense, singular verbs often end with this letter.
What is S?
300
The term for two independent clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Your course and section number.
What is DWRI 093-4010?
400
The type of essay that we will write next.
What is an argument essay?
400
A word that sounds like the noise it describes.
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
Compound subjects joined with this word are easy to match to a verb.
What is AND?
400
The two sentence patterns that contain a dependent clause.
What are complex sentences and compound-complex sentences?
400
The room # for this classroom.
What is C275?
500
The type of essay that will be written for your final exam.
What is an argument essay?
500
The term for devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia.
What is figurative language?
500
Compound subjects joined with this word are sometimes tricky to match to a verb.
What is OR?
500
The three parts of a compound-complex sentence.
What are two independent clauses and one dependent clause?
500
3 of the athletes that help us remember sentence patterns.
Who are (any 3): Michael Phelps, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Ian Kinsler, Chris Carter.