A
The text's main message.
Don't count your eggs before they hatch
Theme
Type of writing that is written in verse or short lines
Poetry
What formula do we follow on our Short-Constructed Responses and our Extended-Constructed Responses
R.A.C.E
The attitude an author expresses toward a subject.
Tone
First Person Second Person Third Person - Limited Third Person - Omniscient
Point of View
Different types of writing styles: Poetry/Fiction/Non-Fiction/Drama
Genre
Sets of lines in a poem (sort of like a paragraph)
Stanza
What does R.A.C.E stand for?
Restate the question, Answer the question, Cite evidence, Explain evidence
A deliberate exaggeration. Ex: He carries the weight of the world on his shoulders
Hyperbole
________________ is the dictionary meaning of a word.
________________ is the emotional meaning of a word.
(hot = temperature hot=good looking)
Denotation and Connotation
In the plot, the point of maximum interest or tension
Climax
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
Which option utilizes the comma correctly?
A. She loves cats, and dogs.
B. I love her, she loves someone else.
C. Tommy ordered pizza, and I ordered hamburgers.
C
The time and place the events in a story or drama are happening.
Setting
An _____ is a conclusion derived from logical reasoning following an investigation of available evidence.
Inference
An account of a conversation, an episode or an event that happened before the beginning of a story
Flashback
A writer’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story
Foreshadow
Correct this sentence
The girl, the one who lives on my street went to the movies yesterday
The girl, the one who lives on my street, went to the movies yesterday.
A statement that means the opposite of what is said
Verbal Irony
A story of someone's life written by another person
Biography
The main character/ Hero
and
The main character's opponent/ Villain
Protagonist and Antagonist
A comparison of 2 unlike things with the use of “like” or “as”
and
A comparison of 2 unlike things without the use of "like" or "as"
Metaphor and Simile
Greg would like to use a more appropriate word in this sentence: Designers take advantage of gravity to generate speed on their rides as cars lower these slopes. Which word should replace lower in this sentence?
F depart
G extend
H descend
J increase
H
What is the term used to describe writing that appeals to one of the five senses?
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
Logos, Ethos, Pathos