Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction / thesis?
Ms. Dauphin gave us a million pages of homework! This is what type of figurative language?
What is hyperbole?
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
Milo's mentor in The Phantom Tollbooth
Who is Tock?
Nearing the end of the story, leading towards a resolution
What is falling action?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
The country that William is from
What is Malawi?
The action that starts the story moving in a different direction (ex. Milo getting the tollbooth, Min finding out her brother has gone missing)
What is the inciting incident?
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
The 3 things that are author's purpose.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
The name Min takes as a disguise.
What is Bora?
A central character of a story, movie, or drama that does not have the typical hero character traits.
What is an antihero?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
The climax of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
What is the windmill working / powering the lightbulb?
A type of story where the protagonist goes on an adventure, defeats a great evil, and returns home victorious.
What is the hero's journey?
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
Metaphor
Punctuation marks used to show dialogue
What are quotation marks?
200: Min is secretly a _______
500: Min is secretly a _____ (KOREAN WORD)
200: What is a fox/fox spirit?
500: What is a gumiho/kumiho?