Setting + Character
Identify the Literary/Poetic Devices
Writer's Effect
Directed Writing
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100
A character that has opposing traits to another character in order to highlight/accentuate those traits.
Foil Character
100
Well-wielded words work wonders, warming weakened wills with wisdom while withstanding wrongs which would wound.
Is an example of
Alliteration
100
What are the different sensory images (you must also consider them when analyzing the text for effect)?
Visual
Auditory (Sense of Hearing)
Olfactory (Sense of Smell)
Tactile (Sense of Touch)
Gustatory (Sense of Taste)
100
True or false:
When writing a journal entry, you should always begin with "Dear Diary"
False
100
Name 4 characters in A Separate Peace
Finny
Gene
Leper
Brinker
Quackenbush
Chet Douglass
200
The writer's or the text's attitude towards a subject or a topic
Tone
200
Verbal irony
200
The number of examples (words/phrases) you must choose from each paragraph
3 (from each paragraph)
200
The verb tense that is used the most when writing a journal entry
Past tense
*Journal entries are your reflections on an event that happened in the past
200
What is the rhyme scheme in this poem:
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.
ABABCCDD
300
When an author uses interactions of characters, things, imagery, or events to suggest something that happens in the future.
Foreshadowing
300
"A perfectly imperfect zombie,
The beautiful beastly undead girl,
Clearly misunderstood,
Feels the sweet sorrow of her existence"
is an example of
Oxymoron
300
When addressing the examples (words/phrases), what you should do before analyzing the effect.
Meaning of the word/phrase in the context (in your own words, in one sentence).
300
The structure of a news report
Headline + Sub-heading
4W's (Summary of event)
How + Why (Background)
Immediate Situation (+quotes)
Influence on near future
300
Who wrote "The Cockroach"?
Kevin Halligan
400
An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Connotation
400
"And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side,
Of my darling, my life, my bride"
is an example of rhyme and...
Assonance
400
When you are writing the response to the writer's effect question, you should (in your last or first sentence of the paragraph)
Describe the general/overall effect of the paragraph
400
Write the structure of a formal letter
Salutations (Dear ________,)
First line: clearly states purpose of the letter
One paragraph for each bullet point
Sign off (Regards, ________)
400
Give us an example of a pun!
Egg-cellent!
500
Suddenly she froze. There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. It was something black...something tall and black...Something very tall and black and thin.
is an example of
Suspense
500
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping"
is an example of
Internal rhyme
500
Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh.
The italicized words suggest what about the beast?
Metallic/machine-like; inorganic; invincible
500
What are the three DON'Ts when it comes to Directed Writing
DO NOT use contractions
DO NOT use informal or colloquial language/slang
DO NOT use abbreviations
500
Soon he was surrounded by ancient forest, footsteps muffled by centuries of discarded leaves. Myths of terrifying forest guardians suddenly seemed much more plausible as the endless acres of trees stood watch, stern sentinels of the trail. The silence was spellbinding as Bo crept onwards, down an almost subterranean tunnel of primeval greenery. Forwards, always forwards, an intruder in a magical garden.
Pick out 3 words/phrases and write the general effect of the paragraph based on these words (one sentence).
"centuries of discarded leaves"
"stern sentinels"
"Silence was spellbinding"
"primeval greenery"
"magical garden"
The author describes the forest in ways that reflect its ancient, yet mystical, aura.