Reading Skills
Identify the type of figurative language: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
I say, mama, I'm so sorry
I got ice burn where my heart at
On the road where I had it hard at
How I'm chosen? I'm so heartless, so, so heartless
NBA Young Boy
Identify the suffix on the of the word "heartless".
Bonus: What is the main message of this stanza?
What is -less?
Bonus: He means that he is lonely and lacks feelings because of the things he has been through in life.
A true story of a person's life written or told by that person
What is an autobiography?
Identify the type of figurative language: "Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."
What is an idiom?
Character’s Voice: This is the voice of the main character and how they view the world.
The character’s voice is usually written in ____ or _____ person point of view.
What is first or third person point of view?
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
_________ _________ typically follows one of five formats: cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution and sequence.
What is expository text?
It's been a long time since you fell in love
You ain't coming out your shell, you really ain't been yourself
Tell me what must I do (do tell, my love)
'Cause luckily I'm good at reading
"Say So" Doja Cat
Name the literary device used in this stanza by the phrase "You ain't coming out of your shell".
What is an idiom?
These are visual aids in expository text such as: illustrations, photographs, charts, graphs, diagrams, and timelines also known as ____________.
What are graphics?
Name the main type of conflict in the excerpt from Diary of Anne Frank.
What is an external conflict: Character vs. Society?
Pretty hurts
We shine the light on whatever's worst
Perfection is a disease of a nation
Pretty hurts, pretty hurts
"Pretty Hurts"- Beyonce
Name a type of figurative language represented in this stanza.
What is personification? - Pretty Hurts
or
What is a metaphor?- Perfection is a disease of a nation.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Gettysburg Address, Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Identify the type of the language used when he said "a new nation conceived in Liberty".
Bonus: Explain the meaning of the language used when he said "a new nation conceived in Liberty".
What is personification?
It means this nation was created freely by people who choose to honor freedom for everyone.
(As long as the explanation is close to this meaning, it will be excepted.)
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?