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 should you write a thesis statement (the trick I taught you this year)?
Claim+because+ 3 reasons
What is the opening paragraph to your writing called?
The closing, the introduction, or the body?
Introduction
This term describes the way an author reveals a character’s personality through their thoughts, actions, and dialogue.
characterization
The problem of the story
The message or lesson of the story
Theme
Why should you annotate while reading?
Reading exercises your brain muscles! It helps you to critically think about the text.
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 of figurative language is this?
"The candle flickered in the dark room, casting long, dancing shadows across the cracked wooden floor."
imagery
Which 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 Salva’s main struggle in the first four chapters of A Long Walk to Water?
A. Finding enough food and water
B. Deciding whether to stay in school
C. Leading his family to safety
A. Finding enough food and water
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 by telling what kind, how many, or which one.
adjective
The pretty girl looked in my direction.
Which of the following is an example of a helping verb?
A.) had B) went
C) jumped D) jumping
A) had
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
What is meter?
The ending of the verse in a poem
A type of poem that connects feeling and emotions.
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
The ending words that rhyme
3. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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.