It's all about the CON
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The Foundation of Writing
100

The word that means to "wrap up" at the end of a piece of writing.

What is conclusion?

100

A judgement formed about something.

What is an opinion?

100

A character who recounts the events of a novel.

What is the narrator?

100

A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

What is a flashback?

100

The type of evidence used to make a claim stronger.

What is supporting evidence?

200

The word that means opposing opinions or principles.

What is conflict?

200

The author's message that weaves into all events of a story.

What is the central idea?

200

A preliminary version of a piece of writing.

What us a draft?

200

Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

What is dialogue?

200

The narrator's position in relation to a story being told.

What is point of view?

300

To persuade someone.

What is convince?

300

A spoken or written account of connected events.

What is a narrative?

300

To re-examine and make alterations to a piece of writing.

What is revise?

300

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

What is the plot?

300

A book or document used to provide evidence in research.

What is source?

400

Details based on a physical description.

What are concrete details?
400

The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

What is research?

400

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

What is a stanza?

400

Involving many carefully arranged parts or details

What is elaboration?

400

Information drawn from a document, used to establish facts

What is evidence?

500

Grammar usage and punctuation.

What are conventions?

500

The author's motivation.

What is purpose?
500

A notepad used during SBAC that students can access their writing.

What is a global notepad?

500
Words or phrases that show the passage of time.

What are transition words?

500

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

What is plagiarism?