Figurative Language
Story runs around the field like a cheetah!
What is a simile?
When answering a short answer or essay question, what acronym do you need to remember (and what do the letters stand for)?
What is RACES? Restate the question; Answer all parts of the question; Cite evidence x2; Explain your evidence; SUM IT UP
Identify the SUBJECT in the following sentence:
Traditionally, students like running for class president in the Fall
STUDENTS
Change this sentence from passive to active without changing the meaning:
Awards are given to students by presenters every year at the North Side cermony.
Presenters give awards to students every year at the North Side cermony.
This is the lesson or moral that a story is trying to teach.
What is a theme?
The branches bowed to the ground.
Name all the parts of an argumentative essay.
Hook + thesis
Main Idea 1
Main Idea 2
Main Idea 3
Counteragrument
Conclusion
Identify the verb in the following sentence:
Clap your hands a little louder.
What is clap?
Where are the TWO places you will include your THESIS statment?
The last sentence of your hook and the first sentence of your conclusion.
The main character of a story, novel, or a play (good or bad)
What is a protagonist?
I am so tired that I could sleep for a year!
What is hyperbole?
When answering short answer questions, you know that you need two pieces of evidence.
How should you begin the sentence that gives the evidence?
According to the text...
In the text it states...
In paragraph/on line __ it states, ...
Adjectives are words that describe...
What are nouns or pronouns?
Identify the VERBAL PHRASE and what type of verbal is used in this sentence:
My puppies were worn out from running around the yard.
running around the yard
gerund phrase
The logical sequence of events that develops a story
What is the plot?
Dewdrops dwell delicately on the daffodils.
Name all the parts of a main idea/body paragraph
Transition, main idea. Explain main idea. Give first evidence. Say more. Give second evidence. Say what that shows. Sum it up.
**Daily Double**
Identify the COMPLETE verbal phrase in this sentence:
Do you have any food to bring to the party?
to bring to the party
infinitive phrase
This is the one part of an argument that is not included in an informational essay...
What is the counterargument?
DAILY DOUBLE
Name at least 3 things you need to do to show dialogue.
Create a new paragraph each time a new person speaks.
Add quotation marks around everything a person says.
Add speaker tags.
Capitalize the first word that someone says.
He was the wizard and we, the people of Oz, under his spell the entire time.
What is an allusion?
When asked to discuss the author's point of view, what are two things that you could discuss?
(what does point of view mean)
1st, 2nd, 3rd
Perspective
Feelings about the topic
Their position on the topic
A participle is when a verb becomes________ .
an adjective
Change this sentence to ACTIVE:
I suddenly realized that my game had already been played.
I suddenly realized that someone had already played my game.
Add sensory details to this sentence:
Tom looked and saw the car coming down the streat.
* add sound, smells, descriptions of Tom, the car, the street...