FICTION
The author's feeling about the subject of a story
What is Tone?
The overall topic of an article
What is the Main Idea?
What is editing?
The verbs in a sentence are not the same form.
What is lack of Parallelism?
An educated guess
What is an Inference?
The person who is telling the story from his/her perspective or that of others in a story
What is Point of View?
The specific details that relate to or further explain the topic of a passage
What are supporting details?
Making changes through removing, adding, moving, or improving something in a text.
What is revising?
Two independent clauses are joined together without any punctuation.
What is a Run-On sentence?
An essay that attempts to convince someone of something.
What is a Persuasive essay?
You're reading a short story and you see the narrator referring to himself or herself as "I", "we", or "us."
What is First Person Point of View?
The nonfiction Notice & Note signpost you annotate to indicate the author has cited the words of a person of authority.
What are Quoted Words?
You notice that "desert" has been spelled "dessert" and you correct it.
What is editing?
A phrase lacks a subject and/or verb.
What is a fragment?
The sufficient length of an essay
What are 4- 5 paragraphs?
The moral lesson the author is trying to teach you through the story.
What is Theme?
What are Numbers and Stats?
The part of the essay that includes the Thesis statement?
What is the Introduction paragraph?
Two independent clauses are joined together with a conjunction but no comma before it.
What is a Run-On Sentence?
Words that help an essay or paragraph to flow better.
What are Transition Words?
What is a simile?
The statement in an essay that gives the writer's opinion and the arguments he/she will present.
What is a Thesis statement?
You delete a sentence from a paragraph because it doesn't support the main idea.
What is revising?
A phrase that doesn't express a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
Making notes in the margins of a text in order to help reading comprehension.
What is text annotation?