Figurative Language
He was a star, a true star that shone brighter with each passing day.
METAPHOR
Blending length of sentences: short, medium, and longer sentences.
PACING
Mark used to indicate excitement.
! (Exclamation Point)
The year that SU Hoops won national title
2003
Speed @ which a student reads....
FLUENCY
person, place, thing, that represents something else in a work of fiction.
SYMBOLISM
Words and phrases that link one idea to another...
TRANSITIONS
Mark used when you need to slow down....
COMMA
The current Mayor of Syracuse
Mayor Ben Walsh
The difficulty level of a text...
LEXILE SCORE
Character that experiences change/ growth during a story
DYNAMIC CHARACTER
Type of writing that tells a story...
NARRATIVE
used to separate two independent clauses.
; (semi-colon)
The best Pizza in Syracuse?
TWIN TREES! (DUH)
What good readers do while reading...(with a pen or pencil)
ANNOTATE!
The perceived attitude of the author in a literary work (expressed by word choice, and plot, character, etc..)
TONE
Repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a...
PARALLEL STRUCTURE
MARK THAT MEANS (TO BE CONTINUED)...
ELLIPSIS
NAME OF THE HOCKEY TEAM IN THE CUSE...
THE CRUNCH
Complex passages need to be...
RE-READ!
When a metaphor is continued throughout a literary work...
EXTENDED METAPHOR
The method for getting the reader interested from the very beginning!
THE HOOK!
a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
COLON
POPULATION OF SYRACUSE IS:
A) 125,000
B) 80,000
C) 200,000
D) 145,000
D
PART of the brain that is responsible for being able to read.
TEMPORAL LOBE