Vocabulary
Definition: To change position or location; to move from one country or place to another.
What is migration?
What is the difference between fiction and non-fiction?
Fiction: a made up story (fake)
Non-Fiction: story based on facts, real events and real people (real).
If we are using a Venn Diagram, what are we doing?
What is compare and contrast?
"The tiny white flowers dotted the morning mountainside like patches of snow" is an example of what?
What is a simile?
How many points can I receive for blank answers?
Zero! Be sure to answer every question!
Definition: To push through something, despite hardship or difficulty.
What is perseverance?
What is the difference between a drama and a play?
There is no difference!
Drama: a play for theater, radio or television.
Definition: the most important or central idea of a text; tells the reader what the text is about
What is main idea?
A word to describe the paragraphs in a poem?
What is a stanza?
A way to find the correct answer by crossing out wrong answers first?
What is the process of elimination?
Definition: caring very much about the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
What is philosophical?
The different categories of a text. Fiction and Non-Fiction are examples of it.
What is a genre?
"Sherry's toddler is in bed upstairs. She hears a bang and crying."
What can we infer from this statement?
Sherry's toddler fell out of bed.
When we are looking at the way a poem is organized, what are we really examining?
What is a structure?
What is the BEST thing to do when looking for an answer to a question?
Return to the text! (Taking notes would make this easier to do)
"She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees."
What does eerie mean?
Eerie: Strange and frightening; weird or mysterious.
Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars are all examples of what kind of fiction?
What is fantasy fiction?
"Do the right thing, even when no one is watching" is an example of what?
What is a theme?
"Ms. Ketigian has a heart of gold!"
What is this an example of?
What is a metaphor?
What does my extended response have to include in order to get a 4/4 (highest grade)?
multiple short responses, RADD or RADEDE|A
Definition: Deprived of something; lacking something.
What is bereft?
"Ari and his dad were driving home from soccer practice when the snow began. Mr. Gold switched on the windshield wipers and frowned. "I wish I'd had a chance to get new tires," he said. "Ours are really worn out."
What literary device allows us to predict what happens next?
What is foreshadowing?
Name 5 story elements!
1. Characters 2. Setting 3. Plot 4. Theme 5. Conflict 6. Point of View 7. Genre , etc.
"Storm clouds threatened to flood the wheat fields in the Midwestern region" is an example of what?
What is personification?
Definition: hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book.
What are context clues?