Figurative Language
Identify the device: "The wind whispered through the trees."
Personification
This part of the plot introduces the setting, characters, and basic situation.
Exposition
Rewrite this:
"Quote" (Author 12)
Place the period in the correct spot.
"Quote" (Author 12).
What do the B and the E stand for in TBEAR?
Background and Evidence
Give an example of a "simple" cause and effect relationship.
Answers will vary; however, one event directly leads to the effect.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
This is the turning point of the story where the tension reaches its peak.
Climax
What is included in a citation when you don't have an author?
Title of the Text in Quotation Marks
("Death by Text?)
Which letter of TBEAR is responsible for explaining how the evidence proves the topic sentence?
A (Analysis)
Identify the structure: One spark leads to a fire, which leads to a forest evacuation, which leads to roads being blocked.
Cause and Effect Chain
Identify the Figurative Language:
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Alliteration
Identify the Climax in "Lamb to the Slaughter."
When she hits her husband with the leg of lamb and kills him.
What is included in a citation when you do have an author, but don't have a page number?
Just the author's last name.
(Dudley)
How do you start a topic sentence?
With a transition word or phrase.
Draw or describe the diagram for "Multiple Causes to One Effect"
Multiple arrows pointing to one single box/event.
Identify the Figurative Language AND Explain How you Know:
"The classroom was a zoo during the indoor recess."
Metaphor because it is comparing the zoo to the classroom without using like or as.
These are the events that follow the climax and lead toward the end.
Falling Action
Should you just drop a quote into its own sentence? Why or why not?
No - reasoning will vary.
How many sentences is typically in an analysis? What is the purpose of each?
3 (say, mean, matter)
Identify the structure: A storm causes power outages, fallen trees, and flooded basements.
One cause --> multiple effects
Identify 2 Yypes of Figurative Language:
"The delicious smell of the sizzling bacon drifted through the kitchen, calling my name."
Imagery and Personification
Explain the difference between Internal and External conflict with an example of each.
Answers may vary; however, internal conflict is an issue within a person, while external is a problem caused by outside factors.
Embed quote into a flow-in sentence:
"...she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head" (Dahl 155).
Answers will vary.
What are 2 purposes of a topic sentence?
1. Connect back to the thesis
2. Show the reader the focus of this body paragraph
Create a "Chain" of at least four events based on American Born Chinese.
Answers will vary