provides details about an object, place, or person purposefully to make the experience depicted come alive to the reader
What is Descriptive Writing?
100
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in closely positioned words or stressed syllables for aural effect
What is alliteration?
100
A five-line stanza of syllabic verse. The five lines have, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
What is Cinquain?
100
Consists of one independent clause
What is simple?
100
syllable ending with one or more consonants
What is closed syllable?
200
Writing that is unrestricted in form, style, content, and purpose.
What is Free-Writing?
200
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs
What is anaphora?
200
a pair of rhyming verse lines, especially lines of the same length
What is couplet?
200
consists of two or more independent clauses
What is compound?
200
Student writer's interpretations and inferences supported with concrete information
What is commentary information?
300
intends to set forth or explain
What is expository writing?
300
the repetition in words of identical or similar vowel sounds in closely positioned words, as /a/ in the mad hatter, for aural effect
What is assonance?
300
Poetry arranged in a diamond pattern using seven lines in a specific pattern.
What is Diamantes?
300
consists of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
What is complex?
300
factual material from the text
What is concrete information?
400
Text in any form (print, oral, or visual) that recounts or tells a story
What is Narrative writing?
400
kind of word puzzle sometimes used as a teaching tool in vocabulary development in which lines of verse or prose are arranged so that words, phrases, or sentences are formed when certain letters from each line are used in a certain sequence.
What is Acrostics?
400
A fixed form of light verse of five lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba and specific meter, used exclusively for humorous or nonsense verse
What is a limerick?
400
consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is compound-complex?
400
prose selections from across the curriculum
What is content prose?
500
writing that tries to change the mind of the reader
What is persuassive writing?
500
A symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in different times and places in literature so frequently or prominently as to suggest that it embodies some essential element of "universal"human experience
What is archetype?
500
A stanza or poem of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed
What is Quatrain?
500
the different ways of writing sentences
What is types of sentences?
500
Two letters that represent one speech sound ch for /ch/ in chin or ea for /e/ in bread