Figurative Language
Both similes and metaphors are comparisons between things that are not alike. But similes use the word "like" or "as" and metaphors don't.
Ex: "He was as tall as a tree" vs "she was a beautiful sunflower."
Why might you not be able to trust the narrator of a story?
Bonus 50 pts: Give an example from Pax or The Tell-Tale Heart.
A limited narrator (1st person or 3rd person limited) may have wrong opinions or not understand what is happening.
Bonus: Pax thought that they were playing a fetch game when he was really being abandoned.
Bonus: In the Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator was crazy and thought he was hearing a dead heart beating under the floorboards.
What is a prefix?
Bonus: Give an example of a prefix.
Prefix: A group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
Define "figure of speech."
Figure of Speech: a saying that conveys meaning in a non-literal way.
Define Mood and Tone.
Mood: The feelings that a text evokes (brings out) in a reader.
Tone: The author's attitude shown through their writing, primarily through their word choice.
What is a suffix?
Give an example of a suffix.
Suffix: a letter or group of letters that is added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
Give an example of personification.
Answers will vary.
Personification: Language that gives human traits to non-human things. (Ex: the sky cried.)
What is the difference between 1st Person Point of View, 3rd Person Limited Point of View, and 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View?
1st Person PoV: The story is told in the "I" voice from the perspective of a character.
3rd Person Limited PoV: The story is told in the "he/she" voice with only a limited knowledge of the thoughts and events of one character.
3rd Person Omniscient PoV: The story is told in the "he/she" voice with a narrator who knows everything about every character and situation.
The word "Disrespectful" has both a prefix and a suffix. What are they?
How do they change the word?
The base word of respect becomes someone or something that is full of the opposite of respect.
Imagery is language that activates the reader's _____.
Five senses. (Sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste.)
Give an example of a theme from one of the texts we've read this unit.
Texts: Wild Animals Aren't Pets, Let People Own Wild Animals, Zoo, Pax.
Answers will vary.
Sometimes, English words are taken from other languages, or changed over time. The original words are called what?
Root words.
Allusion: a brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art, which the writer assumes the reader will recognize and understand.
How would you find an author's purpose?
Ask why an author wrote something, and what they were hoping a reader would feel or know at the end of their text.
Explain these 4 text structures: "Compare and Contrast", "Chronology", "Problem and Solution", and "Cause and Effect."
Compare and Contrast: When a text explains the similarities and differences of a topic.
Chronology: When a text explains an event based on the order things happened in.
Problem and Solution: When a text explains a problem, then talks about the solution to that problem.
Cause and Effect: When a text explains an event, then goes into the things that happened because of that effect.