Vocabulary
What is the central idea?
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
What is Mr. Conway's favorite NFL football team?
Who are the New England Patriots?
Provides explanations or reasons for phenomena.
What is cause and effect?
Used to make comparisons.
What are similes and metaphors?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
An action word.
What is a verb?
What item does Mr. Conway collect?
What are books?
Identifies problems and poses solutions.
What is problem and solution?
Describes something in an exaggerated way.
What is hyperbole?
The overall mood or attitude conveyed by the narrator's word choice in a written text.
What is tone?
Part of speech used to describe nouns.
What is an adjective?
How old is Mr. Conway?
What is 29?
Discuss two ideas, events, or forms of media, showing how they are different and how they are similar.
What is compare and contrast?
To give human characteristics or qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
What subject does Mr. Conway have a degree in? (Hint: It's not ELA)
What is political science?
Describes a topic by listing characteristics, features, attributes, and examples.
What is description?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with that word
What is onomatopoeia?
The sequence of events that unfold in a story; the planned structure of the story that drives the action and conflict faced by the characters.
What is plot?
A specific kind of pronoun used as the subject of a verb, which means that it's the person or thing performing the action.
What is a subject pronoun?
What is the name of Mr. Conway's dog?
Who is Cooper?
Written format which presents ideas or events in the order in which they happen.
What is chronological?
A sentence or phrase with words that start with the same letter or sound.
What is alliteration?