Grammar
This part of speech shows action.
What is a VERB
In an essay, this statement is also called "the claim."
What is a THESIS STATEMENT?
An idea that occurs during a text. A message that the reader gets from a text.
What is THEME?
Who wrote the Harry Potter series?
J.K. Rowling
The one thing or event that starts the story into motion.
What is the inciting incident?
This song is sung at 00:00:01 hrs on January 1st every year - in most places.
Auld Lang Syne
Honeymooners -
This cartoon, made after The Honeymooners television show, was believed to be a prehistoric spinoff of the Jackie Gleason classic. The protagonist works in a rock quarry, and one family is often interacting with another similar family. Of course the Kramdens never had a cereal.
What is The Flintstones.
There are this many parts of speech?
What is EIGHT
Evidence taken from a text must be properly ____.
What is CITED?
The greatest gives come from the heart!
This statement is a _____________ for the Gift of the Magi or The Honeymooners Christmas program.
Theme
He is the "master of the macabre."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
What all of the conflicts start to fall into place.
What is the falling action?
After diagnostics, 8th grade students will start to read this story of two families in hiding during the Holocaust.
Diary of Anne Frank
Wow! Yikes! Whoa! Hey!
What are INTERJECTIONS.
A sentence that takes the reader from one paragraph to the next is called this.
What is a TRANSITION?
This is the term given to the main character in a story.
What is the PROTAGONIST.
"Two roads diverge in a yellow wood" is the opening line in a poem by _______________.
Who is Robert Frost?
When the main conflict begins to be addressed and the plot takes a turn.
What is the climax?
In ELA class, after the new year _______________ will not be accepted unless you were absent.
Late assignments
DOUBLE PLAY ----
To run, To jump, To throw, To swim
DOUBLE PLAY --- To quickly run
What is an infinitive and a split infinitive.
Sentences that connect evidence with your claim are called _________.
What are BRIDGES OR WARRANTS.
An idea or symbol that occurs repeatedly is called a/an _____________.
What is a MOTIF?
He wrote "The Great Gatsby."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
February 2, 1999. Wellington, Florida.
Sally is walking down the sidewalk when she sees Mr. Dreamy. Sally has always wanted to talk to him, but he always seems to be more worried about his football playbook.
What is the exposition? or Setting?
In 2022, in ELA class, students will not be permitted to use _______________ _____________ on tests - like they did on My Favorite Chaperone.
Study Guides
Cooking is my favorite activity.
Cooking is the subject which makes it a verbal, more accurately a ________________.
What is a Gerund?
What is REFUTE/PUSH-BACK?
When two opposite events occur that are completely opposite from what is expected, it is referred to as _______________.
For example, a man who was trying to save the forest was killed by a falling tree.
Oh the _________!
What is IRONY?
What famous American author wrote, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea"?
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
He designed the plot pyramid?
Who is Gustav Freitag?
A question where you don't really want or expect a response.
What is Rhetorical.