The five senses.
DAILY TRIPLE
What are touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound?
True or false: narrative writing is always in the first person.
What is false?
The first sentence in a piece of writing or narrative that aims to grab the readers' attention.
What is a hook or opening sentence?
What is Theme
What is the moral or the lesson of the story?
She sauntered over to our cafeteria table, casually tossing her books onto one of the grimy seats.
What is confident, unbothered, capitulating?
A word that sounds like the noise or action it is describing.
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
True or false: narrative writing is told in chronological order.
What is true?
What is Main Idea
What is the central idea of a text?
The thief tore down the side street, knocking a crate of fresh fruit from a startled merchant’s arms as he passed.
What is panicked?
Giving human qualities to non-human things or entities.
What is personification?
The ending of a story.
What is resolution?
What POV is it when someone writes using words like "You", "your"
What is 2nd person?
Comparing something using the words like or as
What is a Simile?
Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black mustache and, at their corners, sank into a frown.
What is disappointment?
Language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across.
What is figurative language or figures of speech?
Part of a story that introduces the setting and characters.
What is exposition or opening?
Type of narrative/character conflict featured in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is the subject of a sentence
What is the noun that performs the action, or a state of being ?
At the first firecracker’s bang, the dogs bolted, Tess careening into the sliding door with a loud whimper.
What is frightened?
Figure of speech used to show/express extreme exaggeration.
Part of a story that features a turning point for the protagonist/narrator.
An object, person, situation, event, or action with a deeper meaning in the overall context of literary work that goes beyond surface understanding.
What is a symbol?
What POV is it when you write using words like: he, she, they, them?
What is 3rd person?
He plonked himself down on the couch, swigging soda with his eyes closed as if wishing the world away.
What is frustrated, exasperated, irritated?