Name that Genre
A biographical story written about oneself narrated and (often) written by oneself.
What is autobiography?
Cite the best evidence to prove your thinking is logical.
What is citing evidence: why?
Restate and Answer.
What is the RA or thesis statement?
Theme of inequality.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
A boy must retrieve his poetry from a grave mistake.
What is The Wrong Grave?
A short story that has a moral or teaches a lesson.
What is fable?
Series of events in a story; each stage has a specific purpose that moves the story forward.
What is plot development: what?
Referring to the text to support your answer.
What is citing evidence?
Theme of traditions and conformity.
What is The Lottery?
A literary device in which a writer gives and advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A story that is very difficult to believe and often greatly exaggerated.
What is a tall tale?
Find details that led to your thoughts on the question.
What is citing evidence: how?
A method of constructed response to be sure your point gets across clearly and effectively.
What is RACES?
Theme of trying to improve the human race.
What is Flowers for Algernon?
Less than 20,000 words, limited characters, setting, and time.
What is a short story?
The portrayal of fictional or nonfictional events through the performance of written dialog.
What is drama?
Select a specific section of dialogue, description, or actions.
What is character development: how?
Expand on your answer and citation to clarify your point to the reader.
What is explain?
Themes of friendship, loyalty, and trust.
What is After Twenty Years?
A little boy must learn to find his own way of doing things.
What is La Luna?
A work of imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings).
What is fantasy?
Write a sentence identifying what the author wants the reader to understand about the topic.
What is theme: how?
To text or to life.
What is significance?
Themes of regret and loss.
What is The Wrong Grave?
A story told through letters of some kind.
What is an epistolary?