Shakespearean Chaos
Shakespeare’s famous tragedy about two feuding families takes place in this Italian city.
What is Verona?
This graphic novel follows a teenage girl dealing with identity, friendship, and a mysterious ghost named Emily.
What is Anya’s Ghost?
Journalists answer these six key questions when reporting a story.
What are the 5 Ws and H?
Saying “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” uses this literary device based on exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
In a TEEAL paragraph, this sentence introduces the main argument of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
Romeo secretly marries Juliet with the help of this character.
Who is Friar Laurence?
In comics, the empty space between panels where readers imagine missing action is called this.
What is the gutter?
This article structure places the most important information at the beginning.
What is the inverted pyramid?
The emotional associations attached to a word beyond its literal meaning are called this.
What is connotation?
In graphic novels, symbols like sweat drops, question marks, and ZZZs are known by this comic term.
What is emanata?
One major idea throughout Romeo and Juliet is that young men in Verona are expected to prove themselves through this behavior, which leads to much of the conflict.
What is violence? (accept aggression or masculinity)
Lines drawn behind a moving object or character to create the illusion of movement are called these.
What are motion lines?
One of the five values of newsworthiness, this refers to how recent or immediate a story is.
What is timeliness?
When the opposite of what is expected happens in a story, this type of irony is being used.
What is situational irony?
One of the biggest mistakes in literary analysis is doing this instead of explaining/analyzing meaning.
What is summarizing? (or retelling)
This loyal servant informs Romeo about Juliet’s apparent death, unintentionally setting the tragedy in motion.
Who is Balthasar?
This literary genre focuses on the psychological growth of a young protagonist as they move toward adulthood.
What is Bildungsroman? (or coming-of-age)
Unlike straight news reporting, this type of article is specifically written to persuade readers.
What is an editorial? (or opinion article)
Editorial writers strengthen their argument by addressing the other side of an issue through this argumentative strategy.
What is a counterclaim?
We studied how camera perspectives like bird’s-eye view and ant’s-eye view help communicate this broader idea to the audience.
What is perspective? (or power)
The audience knows Juliet is not actually dead while Romeo believes she is, creating this literary technique.
What is dramatic irony?
Name FIVE graphic novels we studied or explored in Unit 1 besides Anya’s Ghost.
Persepolis, American Born Chinese, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Hey Kiddo, New Kid, Awkward, Aya, I Kill Giants, My Brother’s Husband
News organizations can manipulate readers through headline wording, photo choices, and this broader concept we studied extensively.
What is media bias?
In opinion writing, the final section often pushes readers toward action or change through this persuasive ending move.
What is a call to action? (or solution)
In Anya’s Ghost, what purpose does Emily serve?
What is - a mirror to Anya, her inner insecurities and desire to fit in (or: forces Anya to confront her flaw)