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A written account of another person's life.

One single line in a poem

The wind whistled through the trees.

How many paragraphs are in a TDA?

What genre would these books be? Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, King Arthur

Words that describe nouns

"The arctic is like standing on the surface of the moon." Is an example of?

"His eyes, glinting like black beetles.." What figurative language is used?

"When I was growing up,the 1st thing I wanted to be was a cowboy."What POV does the author use?

"He towered above all and his beard flamed around his face." This is an example of...?

A person's own ideas or view about a topic

When a writer is trying to ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE, or INFORM

The voice used by an author to tell a story or poem.

An account directly from someone at the event

A dramatic story written with characters, dialogue, and stage directions.

A lesson that the author wants it's readers to learn

These two things NEED to be in a BODY PARAGRAPH.

What the story is mostly about

Two unlike things compared without like or as

A type of nonfiction in which the person was not at the event

The main event that the story leads up to

What punctuation mark should be at the end of this sentence? I had to wait forever

What two things should be in an introduction paragraph of a TDA

Tanya was unmotivated in school & rarely did her work.What inference can you make about Tanya?

The group of lines in a poem.