Sentence Types
Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.
Compound
The sequence of events in a story.
Plot
What you use to grab the reader's attention.
Jake's iPhone dropped in the toilet like a magnet to metal.
Simile
What's incorrect about the following sentence?
Eat your vegtables if you want any dessert.
Eat your veg(e)tables if you want any dessert.
When we won the state championship, our team jumped for joy, and the fans cheered.
Compound-Complex
When a character says something but means the opposite is called _______ irony.
Verbal
What your essay is about.
Claim/Thesis
"Blam!" "Kapow!"
Onomatopoeia
Is the following sentence in Active or Passive voice?
Clayton changed the tire of the car.
Active
The quick, brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Simple
When the audience knows something a character in a story does not is called ______ irony.
Dramatic
This is the additional paragraph added to an argument that gives insight to the opposing side's opinion and evidence, which the writer then refutes to make their own opinion stronger.
Counterargument/Counter-claim
Maria is a chicken for dropping out of the talent show.
Metaphor
Is the following sentence in Active or Passive voice?
The brains are being eaten by zombies.
Passive
Because the alien invaders had twenty arms, they were difficult to defeat with my two measly limp noodle arms.
Complex
When we expect one thing to happen and the opposite occurs is called ______ irony.
Situational
Name the strategy we use to organize writing.
TIDE
Greg heard the last piece of pizza call his name.
Personification
What's incorrect about the following sentence?
Joshua, who owns a farm tames horses.
Joshua, who owns a farm(,) tames horses.
Joe ate a pizza after repelling the alien invaders.
Complex
"Not on my train!" he shouted.
The main character of a story.
Protagonist
Bonus 100 Points: What is the bad guy of a story called?
What is the structure of an essay?
Introduction
2-3 body paragraphs
(Counter-claim if argument)
Conclusion
Riley is a bottomless tank because he eats so much.
Hyperbole
What's incorrect about the following sentence?
The patients paperwork took forever to fill out.
The patient(')s paperwork took forever to fill out.