Literary
What does the poem represent in "I Am Offering This Poem"?
The author's love
What does the word "deliberately" mean in the following passage?
"She told a Boston newspaper reporter that she was deliberately 'trying to give [her guests] something different.'"
On purpose/Intentionally
Story isn't actually true, but the setting, characters, and events could all happen
Realistic Fiction
Two people speaking back and forth. It involves quotes. (AKS 3)
Dialogue
The message or lesson of a text
Theme
What point of view is this poem told from? 1st, 2nd, or 3rd?
1st
What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
"In 1930, Ruth and Kenneth Wakefield opened a restaurant on an old toll road between Boston and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. They named it the Toll House Inn. Ruth Wakefield was an expert chef, and the inn became famous for its desserts."
Provides background information about Ruth Wakefield/the history of the chocolate chip cookie
Genre that uses stanzas, rhyme, repetition, and figurative language to tell a story or communicate an idea.
Poetry
The perspective a story is told from (AKS 6).
Point of View
What the author is saying about a specific topic in a text. Should represent the entire text.
Central Idea
What is the theme of "I Am Offering This Poem"?
Love is a gift that can protect people during difficult times.
What can you infer about Mrs. Wakefield's chocolate chip cookies based on this passage?
"The recipe soon appeared in a Boston newspaper. Wakefield added it to the 1938 edition of her cookbook."
They were popular/successful
A story about a real person's life, written by another person.
Biography
The order of events in a story (AKS 6)
Plot
Make an educated guess based on evidence from the text
Inference
Events
What impact did Ms. Wakefields's invention of chocolate chip cookies have on the Nestle Chocolate Company?
A. Sales increased
B. They created chocolate morsels (chocolate chips)
A story that takes technology and science and pushes beyond what is possible at that moment: aliens, spaceships, other planets, etc.
Science Fiction
The way the author organizes events of ideas in a text (AKS 5/14).
Structure
The time and place where a story happens
Setting
Daily Double: What type of figurative language does the author use throughout the poem to describe love?
Simile and Metaphor
What does the word "scoring" mean in the following passage?
"The company began scoring lines into its chocolate bars to make them easier to break."
Cutting/marking
A story about a real person's life that is written by that person.
Autobiography
The problem of the story. Could be between two characters, between the character in nature, or even between the character and herself.
Conflict
An object in a text that represents itself AND something else (Example: The house represents the family in "The Ghosts of Nelsonville House")
Symbol