Inferences and Ideas
What is an educated guess that you make using evidence from the text?
Inference
First person point of view uses what pronouns?
First person pronouns: I, me, my, we, our, ours
A comparison using “like” or “as” is called a ______.
A Simile
The part of the plot that introduces characters, setting, and backstory is the______.
exposition
Define metaphor
A comparison of unlike things--states that one thing is another
What is the main message an author of an informational text wants the reader to understand?
The central idea
In which third person point of view does the author show only one character's thoughts and feelings?
Third person limited (it's limited to just one).
Name the kind of figurative language: “The classroom was a zoo.”
Metaphor
The events that lead up to the climax are the
rising action
Name three ways you could learn the meaning of "vice" (below)if you did not know its meaning:
As much as I enjoyed reading, in the world in which I was living it had to be a secret vice.4
Read the footnote; use a dictionary; use context clues.
What is a theme?
The insight about life an author wants the reader to understand
Which point of view will show the perspectives and feelings of multiple characters?
Third person omniscient
What is personification?
Personification gives human traits to non-human things.
What is the climax of a story?
The peak of the action, the turning point, etc
define (v) de·fine di-ˈfīn [Middle English diffinen, defynen, borrowed from Anglo-French definer, diffiner, borrowed (with conjugation change) from Medieval Latin dēfīnīre, diffīnīre]
1 a: to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of
b: to discover and set forth the meaning of (something, such as a word)
Name or explain as many parts of the above dictionary entry as you can.
define--the word
(v) -- the part of speech
de·fine di-ˈfīn -- guide to pronounciation
[ the bracketed text ] -- history of the word and languages of origin
1 a --- the first definition
b -- the second definition
Explain how you would find the central idea in a personal narrative.
ANSWERS VARY, But should include things like:
Examine text details such as: the topic and its importance, conflict and resolution, how the narrator may have changed or grown, and what lesson the narrator learned about life.
How does first person point of view change what the reader knows compared to third person limited?
First person gives direct access to the narrator’s thoughts and feelings; third person limited restricts the reader to one character’s perspective but is told using third person pronouns
Identify the figurative device and explain meaning: “The deep purple twilight flowed over the city.”
Metaphor; the darkness of twilight is compared to a river flow.
Is this an example of internal or external conflict?
Padma has a meeting with her supervisor at 9:00, so she leaves a few minutes early for work. Shortly after she gets on the expressway, however, traffic comes to a complete stop because of an accident up ahead.
External
compare--to note the similarities between things
contrast--to note the differences between things
"After three weeks of rain, the river rose above the banks and the neighbors packed sandbags." What inference can you make about the townspeoples' immediate concern?
They are concerned about flooding, or protecting themselves or their homes.
Read this short passage: “I watched Mara slip the letter into her pocket and swallow hard. She said nothing.” From which point of view is this written, and what clue tells you that?
First person POV; "I" first person pronouns
Of the three kinds of writing we read (poetry, short story, and personal narrative) which is most likely to have personification, simile, and metaphor?
Poetry
Karline is offered a construction job that pays very well, but is quite dangerous. She wants to take the job, but she worries about what would happen to her children if she were injured and could no longer work.
Internal or External Conflict?
Internal conflict
The vocabulary word respected is formed from the Latin prefix re-, which means “back” or "again," and the Latin root -spec-, which means “look” or “see.”
This root word suggests that when you respect someone you ....
See them again in a new way