Literary Review
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
The blank space that separates two stanzas
What is a stanza break?
The most important idea(s) the author wants the reader to know about the topic
What is the central idea?
The noun(s) in the following sentence:
Sheila is calling her mom.
What are "Sheila" and "her mom?"
The verb(s) in the following sentence:
She rode outside the fence.
What is "rode?"
The academic term for "talking" in a literary work
What is dialogue?
The rhyming of two words in one line of poetry
What is internal rhyme?
Why something is done or written
What is purpose?
The noun(s) in the following sentence:
Bring the candies to class.
What are "candies" and "class?"
The verb(s) in the following sentence:
The teachers are in the meeting.
What is "are?"
The type of narration used
What is point of view?
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
The table of contents, photographs, and infographics are all examples of these.
What are text features?
The pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
Lisa and I went to the store.
What is "I?"
The verb(s) in the following sentence:
The girls were watching t.v. for awhile.
What is "were watching?"
How something grows or changes, or a process of making something clearer
What is development?
The personality saying or delivering the poem
What is the speaker?
Never literal and used to emphasize an idea or feeling
What is figurative language?
The pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
They had several items with them.
The verb(s) in the following sentence:
The tree has been cut with a chainsaw.
What is "has been cut?"
In a plot, it's the "ending" or the final situation.
What is resolution?
How the speaker feels about the subject
What is tone?
In both non-fiction and poetry, it is the term for how the writing is set up or organized.
What is structure?
The pronoun(s) in the following sentence:
Take each of those to her.
What are "each," "those," and "her?"
The verb(s) in the following sentence:
Swimming is my favorite sport.
What is "is?"