Vocabulary
If you value something deeply and appreciate it, you _____ it.
What is cherish.
What do we call a memory from an earlier time that is included in a story?
What is a flashback.
In a narrative, this shows the character's feeling, attitude, or manner of speaking, such as “Aria joked”
What is dialog tag
A literary technique that repeats a word or phrase to create emphasis.
What is repetition?
The conflict in "Family Unplugged"
What is no technology allowed on the family vacation?
If something is artificial or fake
What is synthetic
In a fictional narrative, what is the resolution?
What is the part where the story's problem is resolved or the outcome is shown?
The tense that helps show that one past event happened before another past event?
What is past perfect
( using helping verb had )
In fictional narrative, the reason dialogue is important.
What is it can reveal characters' attitudes, feelings, relationships, and personalities?
In "Clean Sweep, the reason Mrs. Leonardo is lonely.
1. What is her family borrowed money and did bother to pay it back and deserted her.
2. What is her husband died.
If something can cause death or failure, it can be described as _____.
What is fatal.
Narrative story plots can take a chronological path or this path.
What is nonlinear.
In the sentence, "Maybe we can exchange the tickets for a Saturday show instead," said David.
Replace “said” with a dialogue tag that shows a character is uncertain.
Possible answers: what is wondered, hesitated, asked uncertainly, murmured, etc.
Your character makes a promise but realizes they cannot keep it. Name three things your narrative should explain.
What are the promise, why the character cannot keep it, and what happens as a result?
In "Homemade Baklava" the family was poor because Eleni's husband was a fisherman. What can you infer from this?
What is the fish are the family's source of income
and you can't make much money from fishing
To celebrate holidays with special foods and decorations.
What is tradition.
The active struggle of fight between a character's goal and the obstacles or opposing forces blocking them.
What is the conflict
“It's not a good idea to make a big change at the last minute,” Carlotta said.
Rewrite the dialog tag so the reader knows the character disagrees
“It's not a good idea to make a big change at the last minute,” Carlotta argued.
or Disputed, Objected, Contradicted, Rebutted, Protested, Refuted
The parts of an acrostic poem.
A word written down the page vertically
Words or sentences to describe the word written horizontally across the page
In "Clean Sweep" the reason Mrs. Leonardo packed away her Egytian linen tablecloth in a trunk in the attic.
It was only for special occasions (like her 25th wedding anniversary) and she has no one to invite to dinner.
When a movie is very long and the dialog is repetitive.
What is tedious.
1.Read the text carefully
2. Take what you know from earlier events in the story and your prior knowledge and experience
3. Combine these clues to draw an inference about what the author means
What is make an inference
First Draft
Second Draft
Proofread
What are the step to revision or revising
A life lesson or message conveyed through a story
Or the central idea that shows up again and again throughout the story
What is theme
In "Family Unplugged," what the narrator realize about the effects of screen-free time with her family.
What is they had fun in nature-blueberry picking, bird watching, stargazing and listening to stories about Peru
The family can have alot of fun together without technology