Grammar Rules
The first word of a sentence must be...
What is capitalized?
According to TPCASTT, this is the first thing you should look at and analyze when reading a poem for the first time.
What is the title?
This is the last sentence of your first paragraph of an informational or argumentative essay.
What is a thesis statement?
A short story must have these things (name at least 3).
A claim must be supported by...
What are evidence and reasoning?
Every sentence must have these three things to be considered a sentence.
What is a subject, a verb, and a complete thought?
This is the type of language that should not be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
When you have read the prompt and understood the question, these are the first two things you must do.
There are 6 types of conflict, name at least two.
What are Man vs. Man, Man vs. Technology/Machines, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Supernatural, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Self?
What is formal?
A sentence is also known as...
What is an independent clause?
This type of language compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
When a prompt asks you for a multi-paragraph response, this is the general number you should aim for.
What is a 5 paragraph essay?
The time, place, or situation of a story
What is the setting?
Sometimes an author uses additional types of arguments besides logic, name them.
What are emotional appeals and ethical (or authoritative) appeals?
Name all 7 conjunctions. (Hint: Fanboys)
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
When reading about the changing of seasons, this theme is usually related.
What is growing up or seasons of life? (Mrs. McClain will also take "What is the passing of time?".)
When you finish writing, this is the last step you should do.
What is reading over your essay to make sure it makes sense, to make sure all of the right words are capitalized, and to make sure every sentence has a period at the end of it?
This is the literary device in which someone says something but means the opposite, the audience knows something the character does not, or when something happens that's the opposite of what's expected.
What is irony?
Logic in an argument is when an author uses these things: (name 1, bonus +300 if you can name them all!)
What are sound reasoning, facts, and statistics (or data)?
These three ways separate two independent clauses:
What are a period and a capital letter, a comma and a coordinating conjunction, and a semicolon?
Name at least two types of poems we studied.
What is a sonnet, ballad, or free verse?
Your body paragraph must have these three items.
What are a topic sentence (that supports your thesis), at least one piece of supporting evidence, and at least one explanation/reason that supports the evidence and topic sentence?
There are several types of a narrator's point of view, name 1. If you can name all 3, you will earn +300 bonus points!
What are 1st person (I, me, my, mine; the narrator is a character and observer of the story), 3rd person limited (Suzie did...; the narrator has access to only one character's perspective, a limited perspective), or 3rd person omniscient (a point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters)?
Name one of the three purposes for writing. (+300 if you can name all three)
What are persuade, inform, or entertain?