Vocabulary
The author's attitude towards the subject
The boy was as brave as a lion in the jungle.
What is a simile?
This punctuation is used to show emotion at the end of a sentence
What is an exclamation point?
The number of spirits that visited Scrooge.
What is 4?
The overall feeling of a work of literature
What is mood?
This states the point that you want to make in your essay (usually the last sentence in the first paragraph.)
What is claim or thesis?
This punctuation is needed before a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
The affliction suffered by Helen Keller causing her to become deaf, mute, and blind.
What was Scarlet Fever?
What is a stanza?
The pen is a mighty tool.
What is a metphor?
You use this to support your reasoning
What is text evidence?
These are known as the FANBOYS
What are for, and, nor, but, or yet, and so?
Author of "The Grapes of Wrath".
Who was John Steinbeck?
The message or moral of a story
What is theme?
You snore louder than a freight train!
What is hyperbole?
A type of writing that tells a story
What is a narrative?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is interrogative?
Abandoned by her mother and sent to live with her grandmother.
Who was Maya Angelou?
The main point that the author wants to convey in a text
What is main or central idea?
Don’t be such a Scrooge this Christmas.
What is an allusion?
This tells you what to write your essay about
What is a prompt?
This type of sentence has one dependent and one independent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
"I didn't like him, but he was smart and you had to respect him."
Ponyboy characterizing Dally