Evidence, Claims, and Reasoning
An arguable statement
What is claim?
A comparison of two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Things that are always capitalized. (Names, places, countries, etc.)
What are proper nouns?
What is sequence?
What is Exposition?
A quote or paraphrase from a credible source.
What is evidence?
An object or animal given human qualities.
What is personification?
Essential information in a sentence.
What is a restrictive clause?
Informing an audience by focusing on the consequences of events or actions.
What is cause and effect?
A series of events that make up the plot - leads to the climax of a story.
What is rising action?
Two things you need when citing evidence.
What is the author and page number?
A word that sounds like the sound it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
A type of writing that one uses when writing an essay for school or for something professional.
What is formal writing?
Informing an audience by explaining an issue and then giving possible resolutions.
What is problem/solution?
The point of the most tension in a story.
What is climax?
The first thing in an argumentative essay.
What is hook?
Words close together that start with a similar sound.
What is alliteration?
Nonessential information added to a sentence that is usually offset with commas.
What is parenthetical?
Informing an audience of the similarities and differences of two or more things
What is compare and contrast?
the events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is falling action?
The very last paragraph in an argumentative paragraph.
What is conclusion?
A phrase that has a different meaning from its dictionary definition.
What is idiom?
The most dramatic type of punctuation used to offset additional, nonessential information in a sentence.
What is an em dash?
A relationship or connection between two or more things.
What is correlation?
When the conflict is solved - the end.
What is resolution.