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Define theme.
What is the lesson or message about life that a story teaches?
Define plot.
What is the sequence of events in a story called?
Define point of view.
What is the angle in which the story is told?
Define figurative language.
What is words or phrases that are non-literal?
What does the term time period refer to?
What is the duration of time in which an activity occurs?
A student practices every day and eventually wins a spelling bee. What theme does this story most likely communicate?
What is hard work pays off?
Which part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and conflict of the story?
What is exposition?
Define perspective.
What is what the author or characters think or feel about a topic?
“The wind whispered through the trees.” What type of figurative language is used?
What is personification?
Define author's purpose.
What is the reason the author writes a text?
Explain the difference between theme and central idea.
What is theme tells a message and central idea communicates what the story is mostly about?
What is the most intense part of the story called?
What is climax?
Which point of view uses the pronouns I, me, and my?
What is first person point of view?
“I have told you a million times to clean your room!” What type of figurative language is this?
What is a hyperbole?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
What is to find similarities and differences?
What lesson does the protagonist Brian, from Hatchet, learn through his experience?
What is always stay positive; always stay on top of things?
How do the character interactions affect the plot?
What is it creates and develops the conflict which impacts the outcome of the story?
What point of view used the pronouns they, them, he, she or their?
What is third-person point of view?
"He was the Lebron James of the basketball team!" What figurative language is being used?
What is an allusion?
What kind of language was used in Jabberwocky? How did it affect the meaning of the poem?
What is invented language? It made the poem playful and mysterious and led readers to use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words.
How does an author develop the theme in a text?
What is by showing the character's thoughts, feelings and actions throughout the story.
Give an example of a character interaction in "Mighty Miss Malone" and explain how it influenced the plot.
What is: Deza and her mother, Deza and the young boy, Deza and Loretta, Deza and her teachers?
A narrator tells readers what one character thinks but does not reveal the thoughts of any other character. What type of third-person narration is this?
What is third-person limited?
Give an example of an idiom.
What is: It's raining cats and dogs; She spilled the tea; It cost an arm and a leg...etc.
List two poetic elements.
What is stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, line breaks,....etc?