Prewriting/Drafting
Revising/Editing
Final Product
Writing Devices
Journey to the River Sea
100
In Western literature, Aloysius Bertrand’s woefully obscure book, Treasurer of the Night: Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot (Gaspard de la nuit) (1842), is generally considered to be the first work of this type of literature. Here is an excerpt:
Write down your answer and jot the number of points you want to forfeit. You have 30 seconds.
What is Prose Poetry?
100
The tool used to assist you during the prewriting process are...
What is an Outline? (Also, accepted answers: KWO, Chart-Making, Mind-Map, Cornell Notes, Fact-Finding)
100
While revising, it is important that you use a _____________ to check misapplied words.
What is a Dictionary or Thesaurus?
100
Writing is clearer and more interesting when writers use _____________ voice.
What is active (voice)?
100
"Life is like a box of chocolates," said Forrest Gump.
What is a Simile?
100
"The Keminskys were one of the richest families in Manaus. Sergei's father, ___________ Keminsky, owned huge plantations of rubber trees..." (163). Sergei's father's title is ____________.
What is Count?
200
Knowing and appealing to your _____________ is important when writing any essay.
What is audience?
200
This should not be something you worry about when drafting: A) Adding and removing information, B) Keeping topic in check, C) Crafting full sentences and paragraphs.
What is "Adding and removing information"?
200
This is a good technique to use to make sure your writing flows smoothly.
What is "reading your writing aloud"?
200
Based on the definition and type, this word can be used to write a sentence that demonstrates your understanding, while being creative and having fun. Citation:
What is Daily Jargon? (Acceptable: Word of the Day)
200
Bernard Taverner studied Amazonian plant and animal life. His collection, 'The Bernard Taverner Collection of Medicinal Plants from the Tajupi Valley,’ was displayed at the Manaus Museum of Natural History (46-47). Bernard Taverner was a ______________.
What is a naturalist?
300
A Fictional Narrative Essay utilizes a formula to keep the parts intact.
What is a Plot Line or Diagram?
300
Revising helps you turn your first drafts into clear, effective writing pieces. You should revise your writing:
a. As soon as you write your first draft.
b. One to two weeks after your first draft.
c. 1-2 days after your first draft.
d. Never! It is a waste of time.
What is "1-2 days after your first draft"?
300
When you write a research report and use another author's words as your own, you are __________________.
What is Plagiarizing?
300
Repetition of similar musical vowel sounds within a phrase of poetry. For example, Christopher Marlowe writes in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,
- "Come live with me and be my love", and
- And see the shepherds feed their flocks
What is an Assonance?
300
""I tell you," said Mr. Carter, "if this house went up in flames, it's my collection I'd save."" (56) - an example of a literary device where an author hints at a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
400
"I often make use of the _________ statement in my writing... a short description at the [end] of the introduction." (An excerpt from "My Writing Process Essay Example." SpeedyPaper, 23 Feb 2018, https://speedypaper.com/essays/101-my-writing-process-essay.)
What is Thesis?
400
Rules for ___________ in a sentence include between items in a list; after an introductory phrase; or when joining two complete sentences.
What is a comma?
400
The format used typically for publishing essays is
What is the MLA Format?
400
Embellishment:
What is a Hyperbole?
400
"The butterfly was still... Dead, but perfectly preserved in the web of a large spider... The brilliant yellow and black of the wings ended in two long tails, like the tail of a swallow" (126-7).
The name of the butterfly is _______________.
What is the Hahnet's Swallowtail?
500
An unusual detail, a question, a strong statement, a quotation.
What are hooks?
500
A Period, Semicolon (:), or , FANBOYS are ways to fix ___________.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
Sources can be found everywhere. Diaries, letters, interviews, news reports, government documents are this type of resource.
What is a primary source?
500
"Bite your tongue, Pauly!" she yelled.
What is an Idiom?
500
"Miss Banks and her sister Emily believed that girls should be taught as thoroughly and as carefully as boys. They had bought three houses in a quiet square, ... and put up a brass plate saying: THE ___________ ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES..." (3).
What is MAYFAIR?