SB Vocabulary 1
The message the author wants the reader to know. The heart of the story.
What is Theme
How the text makes the audience feel
What is mood
When reading answer choices what is the tool used to remove incorrect answer choices?
What is Strike-Through
What in the following question would need to be highlighted?
What is the significance of the simile in lines 12-14?
What is significance, simile, and lines 12-14.
What does the T stand for in SWIFT?
Author's attitude toward the characters and/or audience. How the author feels at any point in the story.
What is Tone
To support, discuss or show how ideas connect
What is Develop
Breaking up the passage a paragraph or few paragraphs at a time
What is Chunking
What do answers for part A and part B questions need to do?
What is match.
This type of text is often used to tell a story or entertain.
What is Literature
When the author gives hints or clues about what is to come in the story.
What is Foreshadowing
Words or phrases that make texts more interesting or dramatic.
Ex. Simile, Personification, Metaphor
What is Figurative Language
What is the acronyms used when reading/annotating Poetry?
What is SWIFT
What should be highlighted in the following question:
How does the author’s word choice develop tone in paragraph 8?
What is word choice, develop tone, and paragraph 8.
In this type of text it the themes are often deeper than what they might appear to be.
example: If it is about a flower it is not really about a flower.
Has many different characteristics and develops throughout the story; significantly different at the end of the story from beginning of a the story
What is Complex Character
A transition to an earlier time
What is Flashback
What is the acronyms used when reading/annotating Literature passages?
What is TWISTER
What would a student highlight in the following question:
How does the author use paragraphs 5 and 7 to build tension?
What is paragraphs 5 and 7 and build tension.
What is Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion, Hyperbole, Foreshadowing, Irony, etc.
The use of the word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning.
A sense that something is going to happen; an ominous feeling
What is Tension
List the three different types of Irony and the difference between them (their definitions.)
What is Situational Irony- The opposite of what the audience expects to happen, Dramatic Irony- The audience knows something the character does not, and Verbal Irony- Sarcasm
What are four story elements?
What is setting, tone, mood, figurative language, plot, characterization, complex character, and theme (any four)