Unit 1
What happens when you add a suffix?
The meaning and the part of speech of a word can change.
What's the definition of congealed.
changed from a fluid to a solid state; made immobile or paralyzed
Which word means to stand or rest at the top of?
harangue
indiscretion
supplicating
surmount
vestige
surmount
What is the definition of bequeath?
To bestow or leave by will; hand down or pass on
What's the definition of diffidence?
quality of demonstrating timidity or lack of confidence
What pacing techniques of pacing do authors use?
What are three examples of archetypes?
The hero
The damsel in destress
The temptress
What are the elements of a narrative text?
The definition of a metaphor.
Metaphor is a nonliteral comparison between two unlike items without obvious signal words like "as" or "like." Instead, you might see the comparison made through a form of the verb "to be."
Through what means can the same story present different variations of the same work?
Artisit representations
What are rising action and falling action?
The rising action develops the central conflict and builds tension and the falling action depicts the aftermath of an action or decisions a character has made as a result of confronting the central conflict.
How do the romance genre and the gothic genre overlap?
Romantics wrote about feelings. Gothic Romantics wrote about negative or dark feelings. Romantics wrote about the spiritual aspects of nature. Gothic Romantics wrote about the supernatural or paranormal aspects of nature.
How can peer review help?
Readers who are unfamiliar with your narrative can point out what they view as inconsistent or ineffective in your story. In addition, reading someone else’s writing and providing advice can give you new insights that can improve your own writing.
What is perspective?
Perspective is an author’s or a character’s attitudes, values, or opinions that influence the representation of a topic.
What is very imprortant in the introduction paragraph?
“hook” the reader with an intriguing question, engaging statement, or other technique to spark interest and to make connections
What is a theme?
A story’s theme is the central message or universal truth that the author conveys through the characters and plot. In other words, a theme can be a lesson that readers learn after reading a text. One text’s theme can be transferred to other texts as well.
Read the lines from John Donne’s poem “The Sunne Rising.”
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Which options most effectively explain why the speaker of the poem describes hours, days, and months as the rags of time?
The phrase sets up a contrast between the eternity of love and the transience of time. The phrase sets up a contrast between the eternity of love and the transience of time. The phrase demonstrates the impermanence and worthlessness of such short amounts of time.
What's the different between situational irony and dramatic irony?
Situational irony is revealed by actions and dramatic irony is revealed by context.
True or false?
When the meaning of something is explicit, it is not stated but can be understood by locating textual evidence and making an inference.
False, When the meaning of something is implicit, it is not stated but can be understood by locating textual evidence and making an inference.
What are the four ways and authior can convey humor? Give the definition of each.
Conflict can be of two types. What are they?
External and internal
Why are brainstorming and prewriting important?
These two techniques can help you come up with ideas, do any necessary research about ideas, organize ideas, pare down ideas, or even eliminate an idea.
Her bread took centuries to bake ia an example of what figurative language.
hyperpole
What is the use of figurative and connotative words in ways that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery
What should each body paragraph have?
A topic sentence that appears at the start of each body paragraph, directly supports the claim, and forecasts the main idea of the paragraph. Sentences that build upon and support the topic sentence. And a concluding sentence that sums up or reflects on the main idea of that paragraph.