Week 10 Vocabulary Quiz

A careful search for information about a particular topic, like looking for treasure in a sea of books and articles.

• Research

• Magnitude

• Modifier

• Writing Draft

The large size or importance of something, or the degree to which something is large or important

• Compelling

• Counter claim

• Embedded Narrative

• Magnitude

A sentence in an essay that tells the reader what the essay is going to be about

• Climax

• Disheartened

• Thesis Statement

• Evidence

Feeling sad or losing hope because somethng didn't go the way you wanted

• Magnitude

• Disheartened

• Compelling

• Climax

The most exciting or important part of a story or event - where everything comes to a head

• Climax

• Modifier

• Hierarchy

• Theme

An argument that disagrees with someone else's idea or point of view

• Modifier

• Central Idea

• Counter Claim

• Embedded Narrative

A repeated pattern or theme in a story that helps to explain its main ideas

• Thesis Statement

• Motif

• Claim

• Embedded Narrative

A story that is found within another story

• Compelling

• Modifier

• Embedded Narrative

• Magnitude

The most important point that the writer wants to make in a story or an article

• Central Idea

• Theme

• Climax

• Hierarchy

Having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring admiration, attention, or respect

• Disheartened

• Motif

• Theme

• Compelling