Language
Positive or Negative Connotation?
The connotation of the word delighted.
What is POSITIVE?
This is a word or phrase used to connect ideas, sentences, or paragraphs. It helps to create "flow" in writing.
What is a transition?
What is the EXPOSITION.
An example of correctly punctuated ______.
"Please stop by and pick up the gifts on your way home," mom said.
What is DIALOGUE?
This verbal always ends in -ing and functions as a noun in a sentence.
What is a GERUND?
Playing Jeopardy is an exciting way to review.
This literary term means the author's attitude toward the subject, a character, or the situation. It is usually revealed through the author's word choice (diction).
Frustrated, Approving, Dissatisfied, Critical, Peaceful, Nervous, Serious, Playful
What is TONE?
This word means the feeling associated with a word, positive, negative, or neutral. It is the antonym of DENOTATION.
What is CONNOTATION?
This can mean the perspective from which a story is told as well as the way a character or author views a subject.
What is POINT OF VIEW?
To prepare the soil__ start by wetting down the area to soften the ground.
What is a COMMA?
This verbal can be in present or past tense and always functions as an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun in a sentence.
What is a PARTICIPLE?
Playing Jeopardy during class, Celia was able to practice the concepts to be covered on her test.
This is the literary term for the feeling created for readers through vivid and descriptive language as seen here.
The tutoring session was crowded and noisy. We could hardly hear ourselves think and actually seeing the examples was nearly impossible in the dimly lit room. The red flash in the corner of the room randomly caught my like a mole popping up to be smacked on the head. I had to get out of there.
What is MOOD?
This word shows rather than tells. Writers use this to appeal to a reader's five senses.
What is imagery?
In this part of a story, the conflicts have been resolved and the story comes to a close.
What is the RESOLUTION?
I packed water a hatchet my dad's flashlight some sunscreen and a compass for my hiking trip.
What is a COMMA?
NOTE: Where in the sentence should commas be placed?
I packed a bottle of water, a small hatchet, my dad's flashlight, some sunscreen, and a compass for my hiking trip.
This is the participial phrase in the sentence below.
Exhausted from trekking up the mountain, Karie asked to take a short break to rest.
What is EXHAUSTED FROM TREKKING UP THE MOUNTAIN?
Formal or informal?
Btw, it is so not nice to constantly share ya business in the middle of class.
What is INFORMAL?
This is a word that means to make important changes to writing: adding support or transitions, omitting unnecessary or redundant ideas, changing the structure, etc.
What is REVISION?
In a narrative, the author may share this universal literary element explicitly through dialogue or may allow the reader to figure it out through the way the conflicts are resolved or the way the protagonist changes throughout the story.
What is THEME?
This punctuation must be used to show what is spoken in dialogue.
What are QUOTATION MARKS?
Milo gasped, "Why did you do that?"
This is how the gerund phrase in the sentence below is functioning.
Margie loved baking Christmas cookies for her class with her mom.
What is PREDICATE NOMINATIVE?
Formal or Informal?
I believe students should be allowed to wear whatever they like.
What is INFORMAL?
This word means to use context as well as prior knowledge to understand the deeper, hidden meaning.
What is INFER?
These are transitions used in a narrative to show time or a change in time.
What are TEMPORAL transitions?
Used to show when words/ideas have been left out or omitted from the original quote or text.
What is an ELIPSIS?
This is the noun being modified by the present participle in the sentence.
Dad carried the melting ice cream quickly inside to put in the freezer.
What is ICE CREAM?