Hi. My name is Sam, and I'm going to tell you all about raisins.
What is what not to put in an introduction?
100
I waited forever for my students to finish the test.
What is hyperbole?
100
Who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
100
A brief story that teaches a moral or a lesson on how to succeed in life.
What is a fable?
100
desks, teachers, tests, homework,
What is school?
200
Where you should not include any new information.
What is the conclusion?
200
It's like a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
Uses I or we. A character in the story is telling the story.
What is first person?
200
A brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters.
What is a short story?
200
sand, water, ball, surfboard, waves
What is the beach?
300
An opinion piece written to express one's feelings about a subject.
What is an editorial?
300
A literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two.
What is allusion?
300
Breaks the present action of the story to reveal an event from an earlier time. It provides background information to help readers understand the story, and often contributes to the mood, characters, theme, or setting of the story.
What is flashback?
300
Stories told orally for children that contain magic, characters such as elves and ogres, and may teach a lesson.
What is a fairy tale?
300
movie, ticket, popcorn, soda, friends
What is a movie theater?
400
This is the most important thing a writer should do before he/she begins writing.
What is plan?
400
The car groaned into third gear.
What is personification?
400
A variety of a language that signals where a person comes from.
What is dialect?
400
A semi-true story, which has been passed on from person-to-person and has important meaning or symbolism for the culture in which it originates.
What is a legend?
400
elephants, monkeys, hippos, ticket, picnic,
What is the zoo?
500
1. R - reasons
2. E - evidence
3. D - details
What is RED?
500
It is the contrast between what happens and what was expected (or what would seem appropriate).
What is irony?
500
Uses you. the writer convinces the reader that the events are happening to him personally.
What is second person?
500
When authors modernize or change one or more of the elements of the story.