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Arts
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
100
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
100
What should an engaging introduction include?
A) A hook, background information, and a thesis statement
B) Random facts and a question
C) Only a thesis statement
D) A long, unrelated story
A) A hook, background information, and a thesis statement
100
What does jaded mean?
What is tired or boring?
100
What is the theme of a story?
the lesson or moral of a story
200
The problem of the story
conflict
200
Which figurative language term is used when a statement is exaggerated for emphasis, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?
Hyperbole
200
Which type of details appeal to the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—to create a vivid image for the reader?
Sensory details
200
She is busy as a bee.
What is the pronoun in the sentence?
She
200
What is text evidence?
Evidence you can pull directly from the passage to back you up
300
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
300
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
300
Identify the point of view used in this sentence:
"You should always check both ways before crossing the street."
Second-person point of view
300
Which point of view allows the narrator to describe the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters?
Third-person omniscient
300
(Title+Topic+because+Reason)
What is the Thesis?
400
Which word in the sentence is the proper noun?
Texas is the 2nd largest state in the US.
What is Texas?
400
What a nonfiction text is mostly about?
Facts or real events
400
What is a verb?
An action or something you can do
400
What are the verbs in this sentence:
She watched him play at the park.
watched and play
400
Identify the common noun.
Texas is the 2nd largest state in the US.
What is state?
500
How can the setting influence plot?
What is...
Create conflict
Drive story
Change character choices
Change outcome
500
What is at the top? The climax or the resolution?
Climax
500
What three key parts make up a well-organized SCR?
What is...
1. Thesis
2. Evidence
3. Explanation
500
Which figurative language term refers to words that imitate natural sounds, like "buzz," "crash," and "sizzle"?
Onomatopoeia
500
In Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, what does the word “gold” symbolize?
"Gold" symbolizes youth, innocence, and the fleeting beauty of life.