Parts of Speech
Definition of a Noun
What is person, place, thing, or idea?
Choose the correct homophone:
I don't know (whose/who's) going to be there.
What is who's?
Definition of Theme
What is the moral of the story; a universal message?
What is a dynamic character?
The 3 persuasive techniques
Hint: Latin-based words
What is Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?
Identify the verb(s):
She regrets that, but she did it anyway.
What is regrets and did?
Choose the correct homophone:
I don't know who (they're/there/their) friends are.
What is their?
The difference between a simile and a metaphor.
What is a simile is a comparison using like or as?
A poem that has the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
An appeal to the audience's emotions
What is pathos?
Turn the following adjectives into adverbs:
beautiful and catastrophic
What is beautifully and catastrophically?
Choose the correct homophone:
The flower lost one of (its/it's) petals.
What is its?
The 3 types of irony.
What are dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony?
A one-dimensional character that has limited depth and personality.
What is a flat character?
An appeal to the audience's trust through a speaker's credibility
What is ethos?
Identify the preposition(s):
The cat usually hides under the table or in the cabinets.
What is under and in?
Choose the correct homophone:
I walked (passed/past) the security guard with no problem.
What is past?
The difference between tone and mood.
What is tone being the narrator's attitude, mood being the atmosphere of the story/feeling the reader gets?
The definition of characterization.
What is the process of creating a lifelike, believable character with depth and personality through indirect and direct descriptions?
Cite this quote correctly, which is found on page 7 and written by Roald Dahl.
And he told her. It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word
"And he told her. It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she sat very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word" (Dahl 7).
Identify the adverb(s):
She was somewhat scared, so I talked to her timidly.
What is somewhat and timidly?
Choose the correct homophone:
The class (affected/effected) me greatly.
What is affected?
A father and his daughter used to camp by their favorite willow tree at Wilson Lake every weekend. Each year they camped, the willow tree got bigger and more flush with leaves. They did this for 12 years. When the father died, the daughter spread his ashes at the willow tree on Wilson Lake.
A symbol for the willow tree is...
What is the relationship between the father and daughter?
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
What is iambic pentameter?
The 5 components of an argumentative paragraph
What is topic sentence, context, evidence, connection, and concluding statement?