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What is the punctuation used at the end of an expository sentence?
What is a full-stop?
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What is a 'synonym'?
Words that have the same meaning.
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What is the device used when a poet wants to say that two things are similar but not exactly the same?
simile
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What is the type of writing that Tom is likely to use if he wants to educate an audience on gun violence?
Expository writing
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What is a student doing if he/she must shorten a piece of writing to just its main points?
Summary writing
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What is the punctuation used at the end of an interrogative sentence?
What is a question mark?
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What is a synonym for 'abominable'?
dreadful, awful
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What is the poetic device being used in the sentence "And if I could only stop
Hearing the soft, soft call Of that pure blood running in new veins, Singing the sweet song of life Tempting an old, dry-up woman who been Holding her final note for years..."
A personification of the blood
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What is the type of expository writing that would be used to give information about two types of phones and their pros and cons?
Comparison-contrast
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What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word used to join phrases, clauses, and words.
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What is the punctuation used before the introductory part of a sentence?
What is a comma?
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What is a synonym for depraved?
contaminated, corrupt
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What is the device used here "low above the pulsing city streets;
galvanised shanties overseen by condominiums polished Cadillacs shimmying past Rastas with pushcarts and as we climb, San Juan’s fool’s glitter calls to mind the shattered innards of a TV set that’s fallen off the back of a lorry, all painted valves and circuits the roads like twisted wires,"
Visual imagery
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What is the type of writing used in this sentence "Catherine felt like her heart would explode in her chest after running that 100 meters sprint at the Oldville races"?
Narration
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What are three times that we must use a capital letter?
Proper nouns of any kind, starting a sentence, beginning a direct quote
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What is the punctuation used by itself to separate independent clauses?
What is a semi-colon?
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What is the synonym for the word 'dauntless' in the sentence, "She was dauntless in her efforts to gain fame"?
brave, persistent
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What is one example of onomatopoeia?
Come up with an example...
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What is the type of writing used in the sentence "Eating lots of sugary foods will lead to diabetes, obesity, and teeth decay"?
Cause and effect
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What are the parts of a letter?
heading, date, salutation, body, closure, signature
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What is the punctuation mark used to separate parts of a complex sentence?
What is a comma?
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What are two synonyms for 'tedious'?
tiresome, unimaginative, lifeless
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What is one example of a metaphor from one of the poems done in class?
Find an example in a poem done in class.
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What is the best type of writing to use if you want to explain how to build a model car?
Process analysis
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What is a prepositional phrase?
A prepositional phrase serves the same function as a prepoistion. A prepositional phrase is a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object. Most of the time, a prepositional phrase modifies a verb or a noun.
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