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100
What is connotation?
The feelings that a word evokes
100
What a nonfiction text is mostly about?
Central Idea
100
What is an action word?
Verb
100
What is denotation?
The dictionary definition of word
100
What is a noun?
person, place, thing, or idea
200
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
200
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
200
How the author thinks or feels about the topic
Author's perspective
200
What are the 5 author's purposes?
PIE'ED
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, Describe
200
Name 3 different types of poems
Bonus points if you can tell the defining characteristics of 2 of them.
Haiku: 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllable pattern
Limerick: 5 lines, AABA rhyme scheme
Free Verse: No rhyme scheme
Rhyme Verse: Rhymes, but no overall structure.
300
The problem of the story
conflict
300
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
300
What the author is trying to convince you about a topic
Author's claim
300
She is busy as a bee.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
300
What is a narrative?
a fiction or nonfiction text written like a story
400
Define cause and effect AND give key words
Test structure that tells what happens and why, key words: as a result, because, It/then, etc.
400
Put the following plot elements in order: climax, falling action, rising action, resolution, exposition.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
400
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Boyer and Shayna drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
4
400
What punctuation marks do you use to cite direct evidence from the text?
Quotation marks
400
What strategy should I use if I am struggling to answer a question?
Use process of elimination
500
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
500
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
500
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
500
"You are my sunshine" is an example of?
A metaphor
500
What does chronological order mean?
order of events from first to last