Drama
What is a character?
A character is an actor or person in the play.
What is the theme of a story?
The theme of a story is the lesson learned or message the author wants you/the characters to take away.
What is a nonfiction story?
A nonfiction story is a "real" story with facts, real events, and/or is about real people.
Who is the poet?
The poet is the author of a poem.
What is a synonym? What is an antonym?
A synonym is a word that means the same thing as another word.
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of a word.
What is a character tag?
A character tag is the name of the character saying the lines.
What is a summary of a story?
A summary of a story is a short restatement of the story's important parts. It is in your own words.
What is the Central Idea of a story?
The Central Idea of a story is what the story is mostly about.
What is a stanza?
What is a line?
A stanza is a paragraph in a poem.
A line is a singular line in a poem.
What is a prefix? What is a suffix?
A prefix is a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning of the root word.
A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change the meaning of the root word.
Who is the playwright?
The playwright is the author of the play.
Playwright = write the play.
What is the conflict in a story?
A conflict is the main problem in the story.
What are text and graphic features?
*Give 3 examples.
Text and graphic features are story features used to help the reader better understand the story.
Some examples are: charts, graphs, diagrams, bold word, text boxes, illustrations, photographs, subheadings, etc.
Who is the speaker in a poem?
What 3 words are "question" words that help us know we are reading question/prompt. We do not need these words to start our response.
Explain, Why, How
What are stage directions?
Stage directions are words in italics that tell the characters how to act and say their lines.
What is the plot of a story?
The plot of a story is the sequence of events that take place.
What is a text structure?
A text structure is the way the author organizes the information in the story.
What is rhyme scheme?
What is a free verse poem?
Rhyme scheme is the rhyming pattern of a poem.
A Free Verse poem is a poem that does not have a rhyme scheme.
What is an ECR? What is a SCR?
*What strategy do we use to write these?
ECR stands for Extended Constructed Response.
SCR stands for Short Constructed Response.
*The strategy we use to write these is RACE.
What are acts / scenes in a play?
An act or scene in a play is how the playwright divides up the play to show time has passed and the setting has changed.
What is point of view AND perspective of a story?
The point of view is the way the story is told (1st person OR 3rd person).
Perspective is who is telling us the story (a character or narrator).
Why does an author write an informational/nonfiction story?
The author writes an informational/nonfiction story to inform or teach the reader about a topic or subject.
What is figurative language?
*Give 2 examples
Figurative language is a word or phrase that doesn't mean what it literally says.
Some examples are: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Imagery, Idiom, Personification, Onomatopoeia, etc.
What is an author's claim?
An author's claim is their opinion.