Grammar
These words connect words, phrases, and clauses.
What are conjunctions?
The outlook that an author or a character has about something.
What is perspective?
A group of lines similar to a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
In the story "From Scratch", what is Priya's opinion on having to move to America?
Possible Answer: She doesn't like it and she misses home.
True or False:
Sorcerers are really cool.
True.
Whoa! These words may be offset with a period or exclamation mark, or connected with a comma. They express feeling and emotion in a sudden way.
A central idea which ties a story together.
What is a theme?
Writing or speaking that does not use a word's literal or realistic meaning.
What is figurative writing?
Who is Cheonson in the story "Cheonson and the Admiral"?
Cheonson is a young boy who lives on a farm. His uncle is in the navy.
This structure of text shows the differences and similarities between two or more things.
What is a compare and contrast structure?
These words demonstrate relationship to location, direction, time, and reason.
What are prepositions?
The voice that narrates a poem.
What is the speaker?
The voice which narrates a poem.
What is the speaker?
Why is John upset in "The Unbreakable Code"?
His family is making him move away.
Give the proper contraction of the words "you" and "have"
You've
The shortening of a word or a group of words by the omission of a single letter.
What is a contraction?
A scene which takes the story back to a time before what is currently happening in the story.
What is a flashback?
How does the speaker in "Can I Live Without Your Smile" feel about the main subject in the poem?
The speaker cares deeply about the subject.
What is the name for the story structure in which Cheonson remembers the Japanese attack on his home?
A flashback.
How does a chronological text organize its ideas?
In the order in which events happened.
These conjunctions work in pairs to join words, phrases, or clauses.
What are correlative conjunctions?
BONUS (100 Points)
Give an example of a pair of correlative conjunctions.
The reason why an author writes a story or poem.
What is purpose?
Bonus: What is Marceline's favorite poem?
"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
True or False:
"Be happy with what you have" is a theme shared in "The Fool Who Fished for a King" and "The Moss from the Chimera's Cave".
False
What do stage directions in a play do?
Tell the actors what to do.