Ideas & Details
The text says “He sighed and stared at the floor.” What can you infer?
What is he feels sad, disappointed, or tired?
This genre tells a story using made-up characters and events.
What is fiction?
“The sun smiled down on them" is this type of figurative language
What is personification?
The point of view used in a story using "I" and "me"
What is first-person?
The type of figurative language used in "time is a thief"
What is a metaphor?
The author mentions the storm clouds and sudden silence before a crash is hinting at this
What is a storm or danger is coming?
A story told out of chronological order is using this structure.
What is non-linear structure?
"Blue" in the sentence “She was feeling blue” has this type of meaning (denotative or connotative)
What is connotative?
In The Hate U Give, Starr switches between two ways of speaking depending on where she is to represent this theme
What is identity?
The author's meaning when they say "he walked into the room like a lion entering a fight"
What is he was brave, bold, or intimidating?
What type of detail is directly stated in the text?
What is an explicit detail?
The author describes a fire station burning down is this type of literary technique
What is irony?
A word that sounds like what it means, like “sizzle” or “bang.”
What is onomatopoeia?
Repetition of the word "nevermore" in The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe creates this mood
What is despair, hopelessness, or dread?
The reason the author would an author include a rhetorical question in a persuasive piece
What is to make the reader think or agree?
A paragraph includes “as a result,” “due to,” and “therefore" shows this relationship
What is cause and effect?
Repeating a phrase like “Never again” at the start of multiple sentences is this technique
What is repetition (or anaphora)?
The connotative meaning of “snake” in the sentence “He’s such a snake”
What is someone untrustworthy or sneaky?
The author's purpose for writing an informational editorial full of strong emotional language and personal anecdotes
What is to persuade the reader?
This structural element is often used to separate ideas in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The difference between an explicit idea and an implicit one
What is explicit is directly stated, implicit is suggested or inferred?
This type of irony happens when the audience knows something the characters don’t.
What is dramatic irony?
The meaning of "reluctant" in the sentence “He was reluctant, dragging his feet toward the door.”
What is unwilling or hesitant?
In A Monster Calls, this is author's purpose for including the stories force Conor to confront uncomfortable truths
What is that truth, even when painful, is necessary for healing?
In "The Caged Bird" the speaker sees a caged bird and reflects on their own life and uses the caged bird as a symbol of this
What is confinement or loss of freedom?