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Vocabulary
Narrative Essay
The Turtle & the Rabbit
Figurative Language - Bonus
Argumentative Essay
100
eternal
What is forever?
100
Exposition
What is the background information given at the beginning of the story
100
The characters
Who are the turtle and the rabbit?
100
simile
What compares two unlike things, using the word like or as?
100
hook
What is it catches the readers attention?
200
dome
What is the high rounded top of a building?
200
Problem
What is the conflict?
200
The setting
What is in the country, on and about a race course?
200
metaphor
What compares two things without like or as. Says one thing is another?
200
Background information
What is it tells the reader general information on the topic?
300
vague
What is unclear?
300
Rising action
What is the main action; the struggle of the main characters?
300
The problem
What is the rabbit always bragging about, and why the turtle challenged him to the race?
300
personification
What gives human traits to animals, objects, things in nature, and ideas?
300
body
What is main reasons and support, (reasons, facts, common beliefs)
400
mystic
What is mysterious
400
Climax
What is the moment where the character succeeds or fails?
400
Rising action
What is the rabbit took his time eating and napping while the turtle kept walking?
400
hyperbole
What is exaggerating to show strong effect or feeling?
400
rebuttal
What is an argument against your thesis, evidence to say why opposing views isn't correct.
500
nook
What is a cozy corner?
500
Falling action
What is the point where the character moves in a another direction?
500
The moral
What is going slow and steady will win you the race (success).
500
understatement
What is an expression with less strength than expected?
500
summarize
What is to paraphrase the thesis and main points