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What a text is mostly about
What is gist?
A story of connected events
What is a narrative?
The reason the author wrote the text
What is author's purpose?
The turning point in a story
What is climax?
A conclusion based on reasoning and textual evidence.
What is an inference?
Copying someone else's work or ideas without giving them credit
What is plagiarism?
An item or object that stands for something in the story
What is symbol?
A comparison using, "like" or "as"
What is simile?
the main message or moral of a story.
What is theme/thematic concept?
The feelings or emotional response readers get from reading the author's words
What is mood?
the way the author expresses their attitude through his writing
What is tone?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Example: Life is a rollercoaster
A quote sandwich is:
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Example: The grass was dancing in the wind
What is personification?
Genre of Unbroken AND setting
Non-fiction/POW camp in Japan
Define "Inside Out" and "Back Again"
Leaving your home and old ways and then Finding a new normal
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. Example: cuckoo, sizzle, pow
What is onomatopoeia?
Theme of Inside Out and Back Again
Family
Whose POV is To Kill a Mockingbird told in? Why?
Outcasts from TKAM and why
Boo; stays in his house all day long. Tons of rumors about him around the town
Tom; African American man accused of rape
Explain the meaning of the papaya tree from Inside Out and Back Again
Ha's childhood innocence
Explain the phrase, "It is a sin to kill a mockingbird"
they're harmless and don't bother anyone. All they do is just sing their hearts out
What is Atticus' job? Describe his character
Lawyer. He is loyal, honest, has good morals and a good conscience
How was Louie meant to feel invisible? How is 'visible' defined?
Dehumanization and isolation
Dignity and reconnecting