Fiction
A brief retelling of the major details of the story.
What is a summary?
This type of writing is factual in nature. Examples of this type of writing includes articles, reports, and autobiographies.
What is a nonfiction or informational text?
The author's attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
You should use this to find the meaning of a word you don't know or check spelling.
What is a dictionary?
You should do this when a statement is off-topic in a passage.
What is remove it/ delete it?
This literary device gives a hint about what will happen next in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
One of the following is NOT an organizational text structure for nonfiction text.
A. Define and describe
B. Cause and effect
C. Compare and Contrast
D. Rising action, climax, falling action
What is D. Rising action, climax, falling action?
These are words that help you understand the meaning of a word in a sentence.
What are context clues?
When two sentences are related and seem short and choppy individually, you should do this.
What is combine them?
This kind of conflict is when a character struggles with their own desires or beliefs.
What is internal conflict or man vs self?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning (an educated guess based in text evidence).
What is an inference?
Instead of being broken up into sentences and paragraphs, poetry is broken up into these.
BOTH WORDS
What are lines and stanzas?
It was the kind of happenstance interaction anyone would likely write off as a weird New York City occurrence.
The word HAPPENSTANCE means:
A. meaningless B. dependable C. random D. calm
What is C. Random?
Despite a challenging pandemic students continued to learn.
A. Semicolon(;) after pandemic
B. Capitalize Pandemic
C. Comma after pandemic
D. Change students to student
What is C. Comma after pandemic?
My mom said, "be careful who you let in your circle."
This dialogue creates which of the following
A. Flashback
B. Internal Conflict
C. Plot
D. Foreshadowing
What is D. Foreshadowing?
The reason an author writes a text.
Author's purpose
This is a literary technique when the author repeats words or phrases to emphasize something or make a point.
What is repetition?
This literary device compares two things without using like or as (Ex. She was a shining star at the talent show)
What is a metaphor?
In her new book Rising Above, Janae Jones writes about overcoming obstacles.
A. Change writes to write
B. Comma after book
C. Capitalize Book
D. Change overcoming to over coming
What is B. Comma after book?
Ms. Garcia slammed her fist on the table, "I want you all out of my office now!" She tore the book report in half and threw it into the trash
Ms. Garcia is characterized as:
A. agreeable B. irate C. perplexed D. serene
What is B. Irate?
This is the author's claim statement/ the point they are trying to make. THE MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT IN AN INFORMATIONAL TEXT.
What is the thesis statement?
I am a woman who is afraid to say depression. I am learning the uses of rosemary oil. I am trying not to be embarrassed about my Spanish. Divided country girl. Girl who washes herself with poems & finally gets to the therapist.
These lines above suggest that the speaker feels:
A. disconnected from the heritage, but trying to reconnect
B. disappointed she is rejecting her culture
C. disoriented about where she is in life
D. disengaged from things that make her sad
What is A. disconnected from the heritage, but trying to reconnect?
"I remember the fear and trepidation I felt waiting outside her office"
This word helps the reader understand the meaning of trepidation.
What is fear?
Combine two sentences using a comma and a conjunction. Name the Conjunctions.
Hint: FANBOYS
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So