Parts of Speech
Grammar
Books/Speeches
Authors
The Essay
100

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?
100

The person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about.

What is a subject?

100

This was a response to criticism from a group of white ministers.

What is Letter from a Birmingham Jail?

100

This author is a paleontologist.

Who is Jack Horner?

100

The main idea of your essay and its roadmap.

What is a thesis?

200

A word that can take the place of a noun

What is a Pronoun?

200

This punctuation mark indicates that the reader should pause.

What is a semicolon?

200

This book begins by describing a traumatic event in a young woman's life.

What is I am Malala?

200
Born a slave.

Who is Fredrick Douglass?

200

Intext and between paragraphs, these words are important.

What are transitions?

300

"Be" and "Do" are these special types of verbs.

What are helping verbs?

300

A sentence that lacks a subject verb or complete thought. 

What is a fragment?

300

This speech was an attempt to establish peace between two nations.

What is Reply to the US Government?

300

A Brazilian Philosopher and educator.

Who Paolo Friere?

300

A type of Essay that presents a point of view

What is an argumentative essay?

400

Words that describe direction and time. They connect a noun to another word in the sentence. 

What is a preposition?

400

This punctuation sets off all exact words of a speaker or writer.

What are quotation marks?

400

The allegory of a child in a pond.

What is Famine, Affluence, and Morality?

400

This author felt like a rock amongst the waves in college.

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?

400

This element will make your writing fluid and clear.

What is parallelism?

500

Coordinating and Subordinating

What are conjunctions?

500

Words that have the same sound, but different spellings and meanings.

What are homonyms?

500

Method of teaching and learning where the students store the information relayed to them by the teacher.

What is The Banking Concept of Education?

500

This author recovered from cancer twice.

Who is Dan Barry?

500

A part of the writing process during which large segments of your paper might be reorganized or deleted.

What is editing or revising?