Elements of Plot
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Figurative Language
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Includes the action/events in a story
What is "the plot"?
100
Mood
What is the feelings or emotions produced by a literary text?
100
Helps the reader to form pictures and ideas while he/she reads - helps the reader to 'get it'
What is "figurative language"?
100
Read this sentence: Just be "calm" and your dog will come home soon. The denotation of the word in " " notes...
What is "patient"?
100
A group of spectators at an event who listen like in a theater or concert. Be specific to definition.
What is "audience"? Root word - audi
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Characters, setting and conflict are usually found in this place in a story. Background information is also likely.
What is "exposition"?
200
"Voice" - who tells the story
What is Point of View (POV)?
200
"The ribbon of road through the farmland" is an example of....
What is a metaphor?
200
The dictionary definition of any given word
What is denotation?
200
Fraction, fracture, fragment ....
What is "fract, frag" which means "break"?
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Setting usually provides this information while you are reading.
What is time and place in which the plot occurs (in other words - when and where)?
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Thoughts, Attitude, Ideas
What is "Tone" regarding what the author is writing about?
300
She is as sweet as a piece of cake is an example of...
What is "a simile"?
300
Expresses various degrees of emotion from positive to negative also including neutral emotion
What is connotation?
300
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain
What is Authors Purpose?
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This includes the attitudes, values and personality qualities of your characters. We learned about this when we discussed what a character "thinks, says, does and feels".
What is "characterization"?
400
Dialogue, Imagery, Setting are used to create this in the story
What is "Mood"?
400
It allows you to "see, hear, taste, feel, smell" what you are reading. It addresses your 5 senses.
What is "imagery"?
400
There are three types of these...isn't that ironic? Be specific.
What is irony - verbal, situational, dramatic
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What is "sequence" text structure. (Students, you must know how to take any paragraph & change the "text structure" of it.)
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The turning point/most intense part can be found here.
What is "climax"?
500
Message or moral or lesson learned in the story
What is "theme"?
500
They help us to build our understanding of words, find relationships/patterns with word groups and see relationships within groups of words. An example is: Teacher is to Teach as Student is to Learn
What is "analogies"?
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It all depends on how the author wants the reader to 'see it'....who has the camera again? Be specific.
What is point of view - 1st person(narrator is telling story & in the story), 3rd person limited (only know thoughts, feelings of one character) , 3rd person omniscient (know thoughts, feelings of more than one character)
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Captions, Bullets, Boldfaced, Titles, Cut a Ways, Inserts, Photos, Diagrams, Illustrations....
What are "Text Features"?
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