Themes
A main theme in "A Tell-Tale Heart," and how do you know?
The truth will out. The narrator cannot hold his guilt in (or other).
She became as _______________ on the basketball court as she was quick at mathematical puzzles.
stalwart
List 10 prepositions from memory.
Multiple options
One main symbol in "To Build a Fire," and how do you know?
Fire = knowledge; man's desire to control nature, etc.
Dog = different way of knowing
other
What is a defining characteristic of a hook?
Hints at something not stated.
A main theme in Fences, and how do you know?
Multiple options.
It's said that good inventors do not _______________ themselves with conventional thinking.
fetter
What is the difference between a comma splice and a fused sentence?
All comma splices are fused sentences, but not vice versa. Comma splices have commas btw. the independent clauses.
What two PDs? "Or does it explode?"
Metaphor, rhetorical question
What tense(s) should be used when writing about literature
Present: simple present, present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive
A main theme in "To Build a Fire," and how do you know?
Multiple options.
Brian's class is so _______________ that I can hardly stay awake.
soporific
The difference between a misplaced and dangling modifier.
MM = the modifier is in the sentence;
DM = the modifier is not in the sentence
What PD? "glazed with rain / water"?
imagery
What question should your conclusion answer?
"Who cares?"
Four ways to identify theme.
1. Statement of theme.
2. Main conflict
3. Change in characters
4. Title
5. Characters as symbols
6. Topics presented in an opinionated way.
etc.
He is a person who openly _______________ society's rules, doing what he wants.
flouts
Show how "only" can change a sentence's meaning in four different ways.
Only I want to go to the store.
I only want to go to the store.
I want only to go to the store.
I want to go only to the store.
What PD: "the Night’s Plutonian shore"?
allusion
What must you do after presenting a quote as evidence?
Close textual analysis
What is theme?
An idea that is bigger than the text.
She is quite _______________ , always complaining at the drop of a hat.
querulous
What's the problem: "We ate and we slept"?
Fused sentence. Needs a comma.
List three symbols from Fences.
fences, trumpet, baseball, driving garbage truck...
What Greek term captures the purpose of a thesis statement?
telos = announces the purpose of your essay