Common Terminology For Middle School Writers
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- 1.Writing that explains is...
- A.
Descriptive
- B.
Expository
- C.
Narrative
- D.
Persuasive
- 2.Writing that persuades is...
- A.
Descriptive
- B.
Expository
- C.
Narrative
- D.
Persuasive
- 3.Writing that tells a story is...
- A.
Descriptive
- B.
Expository
- C.
Narrative
- D.
Persuasive
- 4.Writing that describes is...
- A.
Descriptive
- B.
Expository
- C.
Narrative
- D.
Persuasive
- 5.What is the word for "the order of events as they occur in a narrative"?
- A.
Tone
- B.
Mood
- C.
Plot
- 6.What do we call this part of the plot: when the author of a narrative gives the setting, background, and characters?
- 7.What do we call this part of the plot: the major problem that has to be solved or overcome?
- 8.The _____ _____ is the part of the plot which includes the events leading up to the climax, and they are usually suspenseful events.
- 9.The ____ is the most exciting part of the story, or the turning point; the conflict's end becomes clear at this point in the plot.
- 10.The ____ _____ is the part of the plot including events after the climax, when the tension of conflict eases.
- 11.The ____ is the part of the plot which shows the way the story ends, and it often shows how the conflict is resolved or solved.
- 12.What's the name given to the intended group or person who will read, view, or hear a piece of writing?
- 13.What do we call the device a writer uses to conclude a persuasive piece? It is when the writer asks the audience to do or believe something.
- A.
Audience asker
- B.
Call to action
- C.
Persuasion concluder
- 14.What is it called when two or more characters are speaking, usually in quotation marks and usually in a narrative?
- A.
Quoting
- B.
Dialogue
- C.
Soliloquy
- D.
Monologue
- 15.What do we call the author's attitude towards the subject or the way the author feels about something in the writing?
- A.
Tone
- B.
Mood
- C.
Opinion
- D.
Plot
- 16.What do we call the way an author makes his or her reader feel?
- A.
Tone
- B.
Plot
- C.
Mood
- D.
Setting
- 17.The ____ is the attention grabbing beginning of a piece of writing. (There is more than one right answer. Just put one of them.)
- 18.The ___ ___ is the sentence which contains the main idea of a single paragraph.
- 19.The ___ ___ is the conclusion sentence of a single paragraph.
- 20.____ are words or phrases used to link one paragraph to another paragraph or one sentence to another sentence.
- 21.An _____ paragraph is the first paragraph of a mulit-paragraph piece, and it usually includes the thesis.
- 22.A ___ paragraph is one of the paragraphs in a multi-paragraph piece, between the introduction and the conclusion.
- 23.The ___ paragraph is the last paragraph of a multi-paragraph piece, and it intentionally draws the piece to a close.
- 24.The ___ is the main idea of a piece, usually written in a single sentence. It is the GPS of the paper, which helps to organize the other sentences. Generally, it is in the introduction paragraph.
- 25.This means "debatable and subject to change."
- A.
Opinion
- B.
Fact
- C.
Elaboration
- D.
Figurative language
- 26.This means "not debatable or subject to change."
- A.
Opinion
- B.
Fact
- C.
Elaboration
- D.
Figurative language
- 27.This is any supporting detail which makes an image more specific.
- A.
Opinion
- B.
Fact
- C.
Elaboration
- D.
Figurative language
- 28.This includes the literary devices which are not literal, such as metaphors, similes, and personification.
- A.
Opinion
- B.
Fact
- C.
Elaboration
- D.
Figurative language
- 29.What do we call it when you give proper credit to your source? (There are two answers which have this meaning, and you should mark them both to get credit.)
- A.
Citation
- B.
Reference
- C.
Paraphrase
- D.
Summary
- 30.When you use parentheses to cite a source within one of your own paragraphs, what is it called?
- A.
Plagiarism
- B.
Bibliography
- C.
Parenthetical documentation
- D.
Works cited
- 31.What do you call a listing of all the sources you used in a research project?
- A.
Plagiarism
- B.
Bibliography
- C.
Works cited
- D.
Parenthetical documentation
- 32.What do we call the page that we attach to the end of a research paper which lists the sources cited within?
- A.
Plagiarism
- B.
Bibliography
- C.
Parenthetical documentation
- D.
Works cited
- 33.What do we call it when people cheat by using someone else's work -- words, ideas, or images -- as if they were their own?
- A.
Bibliography
- B.
Works cited
- C.
Plagiarism
- D.
Parenthetical documentation
- 34.What do we call it when we restate someone else's ideas in our own words, and in about the same number of words?
- A.
Paraphrase
- B.
Summary
- C.
Reference
- D.
Citation
- 35.What do we call it when we restate someone else's ideas in our own words, but in much fewer words?
- A.
Paraphrase
- B.
Summary
- C.
Reference
- D.
Citation
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