ECR
What does E.C.R stand for?
Extended Constructed Response
What is the message or lesson of a story called?
Theme
What kind of figurative language is this: The car's engine roared to life.
Personification
A imaginative story that has a variety of characters. Not true events.
What is fiction
What is the time and place that a story takes place called?
What is setting
In your ECR, how many pieces of text evidence do you have to include? What has to open and close around your text evidence?
You have to have 2 pieces of text evidence with open and closed quotations.
What point of view uses words like "she," "he," or "they?" This POV only tells the story.
3rd Person Objective
Example - The earth is a green blanket.
A metaphor.
Includes real events, facts, important dates. Based on true events.
What is non-fiction
What is a set or group of lines in a poem called?
A stanza
What does the thesis statement of an ECR do? Where does it go?
An ECR thesis statement answers the prompt question and tells the reader what your response is about. The thesis statement belong at the beginning.
What point of view is told by a narrator who only knows ONE person's thoughts and feelings?
3rd Person Limited
Usually set in the future and includes technology or scientific aspects.
What is science fiction
What does SCR stand for? How many sentences are in an SCR?
A short constructed response. An SCR should have 2-3 sentences.
What does a conclusion do? Where does it belong in your ECR?
What does inference mean?
Inference means to draw a conclusion or form an educated guess based on information that you have.
Sound words like- "pow" "buzz" "swish" "hiss" or "pop"
What is onomatopoeia
A story with an fantastical setting. Contains aspects of magic or mythical creatures.
What is fantasy
This word means to convince someone to agree with you or to side with their beliefs.
What is to persuade
What are all the parts of an ECR that you must include?
Thesis statement, two pieces of text evidence, explanations for text evidence, and a conclusion.
What is the feeling or tone created in the reader by a literary work or passage called?
This is called mood.
A story that is not based on true events, but seems realistic. It is possible for this story to have occurred.
What is realistic fiction
Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning
What are context clues