Academic Words
What is does point of view mean?
What is the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told?
What is the process of describing a character through that character's speech, thoughts, actions, and dialogue?
What is the repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
What is alliteration?
Is this an implicit or explicit question?
Why do you think Jacquelin Woodson chose to not tell the truth about her father?
What is implicit?
What term do we use for reading is thinking?
What is metacognition?
What is figurative language?
What is referring to language that is not literal?
What does it mean to discover or reveal (something) through detailed examination?
What is analyze?
What is the blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described. Example: buzz, slurp.
What is onomatopoeia?
Jennifer hears her mailbox close and her dog is barking. Jennifer knows that the postal carrier has delivered her mail.
What skill did Jennifer use?
What is infer?
What is another word for your prior knowledge?
What is schema?
What is a panel when referring to a comic?
What is the individual frame of a comic book?
What uses writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses?
What is sensory language?
What is this poem written in? Prose or Stanza
Some feelings are shallow, some feelings are deep.
Some make us smile, some make us weep.
Some we love, some we don't.
Some we'll savor, some we won't.
Some grounding, some uplifting,
Some long-lasting, some constantly shifting.
No matter what feelings I'm feeling today,
I know tomorrow is only a day away.
What type of connection is this? T-T, T-S, or T-W
Ellie is a search dog and that can be connected to various other dogs involved in the finding and saving of many people.
What is text to world?
What is schema + new information =?
What is synthesize (analyze)?
What is prose?
What is a form of written or spoken language that usually exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure (paragraph form)?
What is it called after you read a text you write about the ideas from the text in an objective summary?
What is a response?
Hello, can you hear me?
I’m in California dreaming about who we used to be
When we were younger and free
I’ve forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet
What refers to where an author has chosen to end one line in a poem and begin another?
What is a line break?
Does this sentece have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?
Every morning my neighbor takes his mutt to the park. It always barks loudly when leaving the building.
What is negative connotation?
What is it called when you add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment?
What is annotation?
What is encapsulation?
What is the choice of important scenes to display in each panel (this choice affects how the readers interpret the information)?
What is a literary device that is a broad term for any act of describing the relationship between two things or more things? These things (whether people, actions, intangible concepts, places, etc) may be alike or different to any degree.
What is compare?
What did the author use in this writing?
The bells rang loud and panicked across Yurrisa. Hidden in the shadows of the abandoned warehouse, Edgar and the others lay in wait. He peered through a crack in a boarded window at the cobbled street. Echoing along it came a shout. Another. Steps rushed toward him, and into view burst a group of soldiers, breaths billowing mist in the cold morning air.
What is imagery?
Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks …”
Does this poem use the literary device of contrasting or comparing?
What is contrast?
Name 3 elements that a memoir must have: