Poetry
The journey through a stories action...
What is plot?
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources,
What is a factual claim?
title, subheading, sidebar and bulleted list
What are text features?
The lake is a mirror reflecting the bright sunlight in the early morning.
What is a metaphor?
Has no rhyme scheme or stanzas
What is free verse?
The pivotal moment in a story where there is no turning back...
What is climax?
Events are arranged in the order in which they happen. This type of organizational pattern is used in short stories, biographies, and autobiographies.
What is chronological order or sequence organizational pattern?
The wind whispered through the the young leaves of the pecan tree.
What is personification?
Written in stanzas of usually 4 lines each, tends to touch on the human condition, often about love...lost or found.
What is a ballad?
person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. technology, person vs. supernatural
What is conflict?
This pattern shows causal relationships between events, ideas, and trends. Some transition words used in this pattern are "because, since, as a result of."
What is cause and effect?
His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, and a long beakish nose, so that it looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindly neck to tell which way the wind blew.
What is a simile?
Because I do not hope to turn again; Because I do not hope; Because I do not hope to turn; Is an example of?
What is repetition?
Reveals the outcome of the conflict. It does not always end favorably.
What is the resolution?
Somebody wanted but so then...
What is a summary?
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism".
What is alliteration?
The rhythm produced by a poem's words,lines, and stanzas.
What is meter?
The underlying message, or 'big idea' that an author is trying to convey in a writing.
What is theme?
The part of the story where tensions start to grow...
What is rising action?
Sometimes a text only hints at the main idea instead of telling it outright. In that case, it's the reader's job to make an...
What is an inference?
Uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?