Point of View
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
What is First Person
The sentence below contains this kind of figurative language.
"Kwasi, as round and brown as a Kola nut, danced with the rest of the children, gleefully spinning in the dust."
What is a simile?
A statement that explains what a particular text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
This meaning of the word savor is used below.
I keep my eyes closed, savor my final moments lying in bed listening to the cacophony of morning sounds from nearby Auburn Road.
A. distinctive quality B. a particular taste
C. season D. to purposely enjoy
What is D. to purposely enjoy?
This should be the last sentence of your introduction paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
When a narrator uses "he, she, they, their," the story is written in _____ person.
Third (3rd) Person Point of View
The sentence below contains an example of this.
I loved the soft scraping noise the chalk made and the smell of the dusty erasers.
Imagery/Sensory Details
A universal lesson that can be learned from a text.
What is a theme?
In the sentence below, this word has a similar meaning to shell-shocked.
Everyone is staring shell-shocked at the board, amazed by what I have just done.
What is amazed?
This should be at the start of each body paragraph and should clearly state what topic, reason, or argument that paragraph will focus on.
What is a topic sentence?
When a narrator uses the words "you, yourself, your," the story is written in _____ person.
Second (2nd) Person Point of View
The sentence below contains an example of this.
The next thing upon which Mrs. Dodson cast her evil eye was comic books.
What is an idiom?
Students in a high school English class get to know each other better by writing and sharing poetry.
What is central idea?
This phrase in the excerpt below shows the opposite of the meaning of placidness.
Papi learned to swim in this cut of the Caribbean Sea...When I was younger, he gave me lessons, scoffing at the placidness of the nearby resort pool. "Buenooo, the best way to learn to swim, is to jump into a body of water that wants to kill you."
What is "that wants to kill you"?
You should try to include at least two of these in each body paragraph to support your arguments.
What is evidence (with citations)?
When a text is written in 1st person, we can only know the thoughts and feelings of this character.
Narrator/protagonist
The following sentence contains an example of this.
Once, at an early practice, Luma complained that a young Liberian player seemed to zone out during play.
What is an idiom?
Food is often connected to memories of people and placed that are important to us.
What is a theme?
By the end of September I was deep into sports and became a baseball fanatic.
The word below with the same connotation as fanatic as used in this sentence is: extremist, enthusiast, follower, activist.
What is enthusiast?
These TWO things should be in an argumentative essay, but do not need to be included in an informational essay.
What are a counterclaim and rebuttal?
When an individual character's point of view changes during the course of a text, we say the character is this.
What is dynamic?
The sentence below contains an example of this.
The testosterone force field around this guy is so strong I feel like I might grow a full-length beard just taking in his vibes.
What is hyperbole?
A central idea statement for the story "The Aged Mother."
In this folktale, a young farmer has to find the courage to protect his mother against an evil ruler and the whole village realizes how wise the mother really is.
We can tell that cardamom, turmeric, and cumin are connected to this from the excerpt below.
Luma came upon a small Middle Eastern market called Talars. She...went inside and took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the old familiar smells of cardamom, turmeric, and cumin.
What are ingredients (spices) commonly used in Middle Eastern cooking?
Instead of saying first, next, last, you could improve your essay by using these transitions. (Give at least one option for each transition listed here.)
To begin, Initially,
To continue, Furthermore, Additionally,
In conclusion, Finally
When an individual character's point of view does not change at all during a story, we say the character is this.
What is static?
The lines below contain an example of this.
...Mud got a mind of its own. Wants to enwrap your penny loafers, hug up on your uniform skirt.
What is personification?
A thematic statement for the story "The Aged Mother."
With age and experience, comes wisdom.
A community needs more than just physical strength to flourish.
This is the meaning of the word decipher as used in the sentence below.
Those who were talking among themselves spoke in dialects she not understand. Only a few could she decipher.
What is figure out how to understand or interpret?
A strong conclusion paragraph will always do these two things.
Restate the thesis using DIFFERENT words
Connect to the reader (In an argumentative essay, this is a call to action.)