Grammar
This part of speech shows an action happening in a sentence
Verb
What is the exposition of a story?
The beginning that provides info. about setting, characters, etc.
Her eyes were like a sea of stars.
Simile
What does P.O.V stand for?
Point of view
What did Jonah spell wrong at the spelling bee last year?
Lamppost
This type of sentence CAN stand by itself and contains both a subject and a predicate
Independent Clause
What is the climax of a story?
The turning point or most intense part of a story
He was a garbage disposal when eating at Golden Corral.
Metaphor
Define setting.
What is refrain and what type poem is it used the most in?
The repeating of a phrase or line. Villanelle.
This type of punctuation is used to combine two independent clauses
Semi-colon
Can a story have multiple rising actions/climaxes/falling actions?
yes
Early bird gets the worm.
Idiom
Define mood AND tone
Mood = how the reader feels when reading something
Tone = how the speaker/author feels about the piece of writing
SPELLING TIME! LISTEN TO THE WORD I SAY:
Mitochondria
What is this called
"Over the moon"
Prepositional phrase
What is between the exposition and the rising action?
the inciting incident
I bought nothing from the store, although I did consider getting the jumbo shrimp.
Define theme (if you read the one on the wall you get -400)
The "lesson learned/moral" of the story. Main idea.
Who wrote the poems Cross, Suicide's Note, and Mother to Son?
Langston Hughes
Name all parts of speech in the sentence below:
"Cody quietly ran under the tree."
Cody = proper noun
Quietly = Adverb
Ran = Verb
Under = prep. (under the tree = pp)
The = article
Tree = common noun
What does 3rd person limited P.O.V mean?
The narrator only knows the thoughts and feeling of the main character.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
Juxtaposition
What were the two themes for Shakespeare's sonnet 18? Why do they go hand-in-hand?
Immortality & Art
What does the word sonnet mean? Bonus 200 pts. if you can say where it originated from.
Little song. Italian Renaissance