Lit Terms
A combination of ideas, feelings, values, and beliefs that influences the way the author presents information.
What is the author's perspective?
The possessive of ladies.
What is ladies'?
A, An, The
What are articles?
The style of "Earth (A Gift Shop)."
What is informal, humorous, and conversational?
Commentary
What is CM?
When the author reveals his or her personal feelings on a topic.
What is subjective?
The noun that the pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
Love, Happiness, Sorrow
What are abstract nouns?
Indicated by "the days following," "soon," and "now."
What is chronology?
Transitional sentence
What is CS?
A contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony?
I, He, She, We, They
What is subject pronouns?
Sheep, Army, Church
What are collective nouns?
Where everyone's furniture and attention is pointed toward.
What are TVs?
Topic sentence
What is TS?
Poetry that has a fixed set of rules.
What is traditional form?
Have raised
What is present perfect?
Quickly, High, Slowly, Always, Immediately
What are adverbs?
The theme of "How Things Work."
What is "life is unfortunately a chain of events linked by money?"
The last sentence of the intro paragraph.
What is the thesis?
When an author only presents the facts.
What is objective?
This, That, Those, These
What are demonstrative pronouns?
Loyal, Green, Mexican, Large
What are adjectives?
The theme of "Dump."
What is "we are a part of a toxic cycle of acquiring and discarding things?"
The attention-grabber.
What is the hook?