What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
What does Nya’s perspective in the first four chapters of A Long Walk to Water mainly show?
A. The importance of education in her village
B. The challenges of fetching water every day
C. Her excitement about traveling to new places
B. The challenges of fetching water every day.
How many reasons does a thesis statement have?
3 reasons
What is the opening paragraph to your writing called?
The closing, the introduction, or the body?
Introduction
What are the 3 types of writing genres we learn throughout the semester?
Narrative, Informational, Argumentative
The problem of the story
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
What is the first thing you should do to an article or text?
Number the paragraphs
She is busy as a bee.
What type of figurative language is this?
simile
What is text evidence?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
What type writing would you find this sentence?
"The candle flickered in the dark room, casting long, dancing shadows across the cracked wooden floor."
Narrative Writing
Which 2 sentences are examples of metaphors.
The sun was a bright ball of fire.
The bunny was as soft as velvet.
The shoes were a smelly skunk.
That test was as easy as pie.
1. The sun was a bright ball of fire.
3. The shoes were a smelly skunk.
What is inference?
An educational guess
What a nonfiction text is mostly about?
Facts or real events
What is a verb?
What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence:
"I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!"
hyperbole - This is an exaggeration because the speaker hasn’t literally said it a million times, but it emphasizes how often the request has been made.
This type of word describes a noun
A. Noun
B. Adjective
C. Verb
D. Adverb
adjective
What are the two types of roots in ELA ?
Greek and Latin
What is at the top of the plot diagram?
Climax
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Boyer and Shayna drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
4
Boyer
Shayna
Store
Chipotle
How many paragraphs does an essay have?
5
The wind whispered secrets through the trees,
Dancing softly in the evening breeze.
The moon wore a silver crown so bright,
Watching over the world at night.
Question: What is the figurative language used in this poem, and what does it mean?
Personification—The wind is given the human trait of whispering, which creates an image of gentle movement and sound.