A clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. Usually starts with words like which, who, whom, whose, or that.
What is an adjective clause?
100
The style of writing that requires the author to describe events, places, or people. The use of vivid word choice is very important in the style of writing.
What is Descriptive writing?
100
Where the plans for piece of writing are set up. The use of graphic organizers are very popular in the stage.
What is the pre-writing or planning stage?
100
Comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
Things that names a person, place, thing, or ideas.
What are nouns?
200
A group of words expressing a complete thought. It contains one main clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
What are complex sentences?
200
A type of writing where the author is telling a story using dialogue, point of view, flashback, etc.
What is Narrative?
200
the process where the ideas that will become the writing piece are written out without regard to spelling, punctuation, or style/voice.
What is the drafting stage?
200
Directly compares two unlike things. Saying one thing IS another.
What are metaphors?
200
Words that describe a noun. The tell what kind?, Which one? , and How Many?
What are adjectives?
300
A verb form that functions in a sentences as a noun, and adjective, or an adverb. The three kinds are gerunds, participles and infinitive.
What are Verbals?
300
the stage in which words, phrases, and paragraphs are added, removed or rearranged based on logic.
What is the revision stage?
300
A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality, or between what is expected and what actually happens. There are three different types: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
What is Irony?
300
Often ending in -ly, these words modify/describe verbs, adjectives, and themselves.
What are adverbs?
400
A word that joins single words or groups of words. It comes in three types: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating.
What are Conjunctions?
400
The style of writing that explains a process or an idea. The word for the style comes from root word "expose".
What is Expository?
400
the phase of the writing process where the work is proofread for spelling, grammar, and usage errors.
What is the editing stage?
400
The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. Some examples are meow, hiss, crack, etc.
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
Words that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other words in the sentences. (e.g. above, across, from, of, on, etc.)
What are prepositions?
500
Serves as a subject, an object, or a predicate nominative. Usually starts with words such as after, although, because, if, since, when, etc.
What is an Adverb clause?
500
A type of writing that requires the writer to look at all sides of an issue in order to prove a point.
What is Argumentative? (Argument)
500
Examples of where this process will lead are newspapers, magazines, newsletters, blogs, books, etc.
What is the publishing stage?
500
A humorous play on words. Usually involve words that are similar in sound or a word that has several meanings.
What are Puns?
500
Also considered adjectives they include definite and indefinite (a, an, and the)