Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
the setting of A Long Walk to Water
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
The final sentence of the the intro paragraph in an essay
What is a thesis statement
The number of essays we wrote in ELA
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
What is evidence
The first names of all your teachers
What is Deon, Jenny, Christopher, Amber, Renna, Darian
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
An author/character's feelings towards a certain topic
What is point of view?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
The number of texts we've read in ELA class
What is 20
The events leading up to the climax
What is rising action
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
The main character in the movie Holes
Who is Stanley Yelnats
What is Delores Bennett park