Unit Texts
The amount of days spent in the mad house by Nellie bly.
What is ten?
This type of notes is written in the margins of a story.
What is annotation?
This type of sentence ends with an exclamation mark.
What is exclamatory?
This style of text uses similarities and differences as a base structure.
What is compare and contrast?
The intended reader or target crowd.
What is audience?
In the lottery, villagers throw stones at a female citizen to grow this "big lump with knobs".
What is corn?
Otherwise known as "evidence in the text," this skill helps to support a claim.
What is textual evidence?
This marking joins two words. For example, forty-two.
What is a hyphen?
These types of words indicate a change in topic by smoothly joining a previous topic to the new one.
What are transitions?
This poem, with a title word meaning understanding, is about slavery and uses a bird as a metaphor.
What is sympathy?
This title, by Edgar Allen Poe, follows a villain who it "Vexed" by an elderly man's eye.
What is The Tell Tale Heart?
These hints are found in a text to help define an unknown word.
What are context clues?
These markings signify a direct phrase from another text.
What are quotes?
These can include phrases such as once upon a time and are the first thing in a narrative.
What are story beginnings?
These types of words should never come at the end of a sentence.
What are prepositions?
This cursed object is the title of a short story, warning the reader to be careful what you wish for.
What is the Monkey's Paw?
This literary skill can be to entertain, persuade, or inform.
What is author's purpose?
This punctuation mark comes after transitions.
What are commas?
This method of editing a draft involves a friend pointing out mistakes in a paper.
What is a peer review?
This stage consists of final revisions and a submission and is the final step in writing a paper
What is the edit and publish stage?
In Phineas Gage, the title character is impaled by this tool.
What is a tamping iron?
This part of a story can be stated or unstated and represents a lesson or central idea.
What is theme?
This common verb suffix should be added when a verb ends in a vowel or a double consonant.
What is ing?
This type of detail helps develop a topic or idea.
What is a descriptive detail?
This word does not refer to a magic trick, but does refer to a popular text.
What is allusion?