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Genre
The Westing Game
Vocabulary
Types of Essays
Gram/Write
100
A form of fiction that accurately reflects life as it could be lived today.
What is Realistic Fiction?
100
A reason for doing something
What is Motive
100
Preconceived idea about a group or person
What is Bias
100
a writer’s thoughts about ideas or experiences.
What is Reflective
100
three common adjectives - the, a, an.
What is an Article
200
A form of fiction that contains magic, talking animals, or fantastic places
What is Fantasy
200
Evidence that the person was elsewhere when a crime took place.
What is Alibi
200
One individual represents the whole group
What is Stereotyping
200
gives information or explanations
What is Expository Essay
200
What is step 4 of the Writing Process?
What is Editing
300
A story of a real person's life
What is Biography
300
a person inheriting property after another person’s death.
What is Heir
300
Providing no shelter or sustenance
What is Desolate
300
series of arguments presented to convince readers to believe or act in a certain way.
What is Persuasive Essay
300
Added before another verb to make a verb phrase
What is a Helping Verb
400
A distinctive category of literary composition
What is Genre
400
Julian R. _______________
What is Eastman
400
Able to die
What is Mortality
400
a true story that may focus on a character other than the writer.
What is Narrative Essay
400
Tells about an unusually vivid memory from a person's life
What is a Memoir
500
An exaggerated story that tells of great deeds
What is Traditional Literature
500
a clue that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting
What is Red Herring
500
Extremely impressive in strength or excellence
What is Formidable
500
an informal account of an episode from a person’s own life.
What is Personal Essay
500
A word that takes place of a noun and acts like it
What is Pronoun