Grammar/Conventions
What is a participle phrase?
A participle is a verb that functions as a modifier. Participles provide further information about the noun or nouns in a sentence, just like an adjective or adverb.
What is a claim?
A statement essentially arguable, but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument.
1. Character's internal thoughts.
2. Character's actions.
3. Author directly describes the character
4. Character's dialogue with other characters.
What is characterization?
Identify if the tasks are asking you to analyze, evaluate, infer, or synthesize.
Why does the main character decide to change his or her original path?
Take the time to connect why voice relies on fluency and conventions to influence the mood of the essay.
It is asking to analyze.
In the example, does the author use an onomatopoeia, irony, idiom, or symbolism?
Boom, the sound of an explosion
Onomatopoeia
When is a verb in passive voice?
A verb is in passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb.
When are colons and semi-colons used?
A colon is used after a word group that can stand alone as a sentence. Semicolons are primarily used instead of a period to separate two closely related independent clauses
The main idea or the underlying message of any literary work.
What is theme?
Identify if the tasks are asking you to analyze, evaluate, infer, or synthesize.
Which character are you more interested in learning more about? Why?
Decide which parts of speech are most valuable to creating a sentence.
It is asking to evaluate.
Based on the example, does the author use irony, allusion, or symbolism?
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Allusion
What is the definition of a prepositional phrase?
A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends in a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase
Is the following example, the use of a consonance or of an assonance?
"What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore" (Edgar Allan Poe).
A consonance.
The writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
What is tone?
A truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion.
What is inference?
Based on the example, does the author use either symbolism, irony, or allusion?
MARK ANTONY: But Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honorable man.
Irony
What is a compound sentence?
A compound sentence is a sentence with at least two independent clauses and no dependent clauses.
What does syntax do?
Syntax determines how the chosen words are used.
Character experiences two opposite emotions: vice or virtue, good or evil.
Character finds himself in struggle with those outside forces that hamper his progress.
What are internal and external conflicts?
Looking at the author's use of pronouns and the shifting of the narrative voice allows the reader to see whom the perspective of the story is being lived out.
What is identifying Point-of-View?
Based on the example, does the author use either irony, symbolism, or an allusion?
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
they have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts."
Symbolism
What is an appositive phrase?
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that gives another name to the noun right next to it.
Is the following example the use of a consonance or of an assonance?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" (Edgar Allan Poe).
An assonance.
Ways an author can order his or her story.
What is chronological order, use of flashback, and flash forward?
"C.S. Lewis shouldn't have enjoyed reading Ovid, who was an immoral Roman with a gargantuan nose."
"Don't use that professor's arguments against evolution! He's an agnostic!"
What are examples of the Genetic Fallacy?
In the example, does the author use an onomatopoeia, irony, idiom, or symbolism?
Getting fired turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Idiom