Elements of Literature
Identify the narrator type when a character in the story uses "I" to tell events.
What is first-person narrator?
Which text feature helps readers locate a topic quickly by listing headings and page numbers?
What is table of contents?
This part of speech can have passive or active voice.
What is a verb?
What is a claim or thesis?
This morpheme attaches to the beginning of a word and changes the word's meaning.
What is a prefix?
Name the literary device where an object, person or place stands for an idea beyond its literal or dictionary meaning.
What is symbolism?
Its purpose is to explain or give context to an image or photograph.
What is a caption?
This is a second noun, noun phrase or noun clause that gives more information about the first noun, and can be removed from a sentence without making a sentence complete.
What is an appositive?
Name two types of evidence writers can use to support a claim.
This morpheme attaches to the end of a word and changes the word's part of speech, number or tense.
What is a suffix?
Define theme.
What is the central idea, message or moral about a text?
It presents information at a glance by using wedged-shaped segments that resemble slices of a pie.
What is a pie chart?
A complete sentence needs these three things.
What is a subject, a verb and a complete idea?
Explain the purpose of a counterclaim.
What is it presents an opposing viewpoint?
This morpheme gives the meaning of a word. Every word has this morpheme.
What is a base or root?
Give an example of a theme from Inside Out and Back Again.
What is in difficult times, family sticks together (and many others)?
It introduces new topics or sections within a text and clarifies how each section contributes to the the text's central idea and overall structure.
What is a subheading?
A clause
What is a group of words with a subject and a verb?
This is when an author refutes or argues against a counterclaim.
What is a rebuttal?
Name three prefixes that mean not.
What are un-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, dis- and non-?
Describe dramatic irony and give an example from "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters.
One example is when the reader knows the narrator wants to kill the old man (and many others).
It follows a number and gives you the definition of words in a text. You can find it at the bottom of a page.
What is a footnote?
Name the FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Name two transitions I can use to show a cause and effect relationship.
What are: therefore; thus; consequently; as a result?
This word comes from the root -trepid- and means a state of fear or alarm.
What is trepidation?