Irony
Figures of Speech
Grab Bag
Greek/Latin Roots
Paragraph Structure
100

When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not. 

Dramatic Irony

100

I am as fast as the speed of light!

Simile

100

Just fall in love.

Not a theme

100

Bio - 

Life

100

TAG

Title, Author, Genre

200

When a character says the opposite of what they really mean. 

Verbal Irony

200

My hair is so long, I can wrap it around the world. 

Hyperbole
200

A person should learn how to trust themselves and others. 

Theme

200

Ambi - 

both sides

200

If you are responding to an essential question, then it is your answer to this question. It is what you are setting out to prove in your response.

Claim

300

The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs. 

Situational Irony

300

I choked on my words. 

Idiom

300

What kind of sentence makes a request or command? 

Imperative

300

Self or same 

Auto -

300

Premise

This shows the reader why you believe your claim is true. 

400

In the Harry Potter series, one of the people Harry hated the most was actually trying to help protect him all along. 

Situational Irony

400

Boom, boom, bash!

Onomatopoeia

400

What kind of sentence asks a question? 

Interrogitive

400

Hyper -

Over or above

400

What is justification? 

Two - three sentences that explain how your evidence supports your premise and your claim. 

500
In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and his friends run away. The people in his hometown believe the boys are dead and begin planning their funerals. 

Dramatic Irony

500

The hand sanitizer started a war. 

Personification

500

A conflict between a character and someone or something else. 

External conflict

500
Between, within, or among
Inter - 
500

A direct quote from the text that gives validity to the premise and supports the claim. It must have _________

Evidence; Quotation marks