Genre Elements
This is a characteristic of a narrative poem.
What is that the poem will tell a story (narrative)?
The following excerpt from The Crossover is an example of ....
"I take off from center court,/my hair like wings"
What is a simile?
This is a conflict that takes place within the character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
This point of view uses the words "I", "me", and "my" and is from the perspective of the narrator.
What is first person POV?
This is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is a connotation?
This is a "paragraph" of a poem or a novel in verse.
What is a stanza?
This type of literature is written in stanzas instead of paragraphs, has vivid word choices and figurative language, and has elements of a story.
What is novel in verse?
The author uses the simile to ....
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
what is to show how loud the crowd is?
What is an external conflict?
This POV tells a story from the perspective of a single character, allowing the reader to see and experience events through their eyes and thoughts.
What is third person limited?
This is known as the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This text structure organizes information by first presenting an issue, followed by a discussion of potential resolutions
What is problem and solution?
This type of writing provides facts and explanations, details that support a central idea, and has text features.
What is informational writing?
In "Ball Hawk", the hawk is a symbol of...
What is Mitchell's father?
This is a term for the main point of a text.
What is central idea?
This POV is an "all-knowing" narrator, not a character in the story, who can access the thoughts, feelings, and actions of multiple characters, providing a broad perspective and context to the story.
What is third person omniscient?
What is onlookers?
This text structure explains the relationship between events or actions and their outcomes or consequences.
What is cause and effect text structure?
This type of literature is more about thoughts/feelings rather than a story, expresses ideas from two perspectives, and is structured where lines are spoken by one voice or different voices.
what is Two-Voice Poetry?
The author uses personification in these lines ...
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey’s getting to the bat.
What is to emphasize how hopeless the crowd feels?
This is a logical guess based on text evidence, your previous knowledge, and your own experiences.
What is an inference?
This tone presents information in a neutral, unbiased, and factual manner, focusing on facts rather than personal opinions or emotions.
What is an objective tone?
Which word is correct in the sentence? affect/effect
Some later suggested the sale had an unfortunate ________ that was responsible for the team’s struggles.
What is effect?
This text structure presents information in time order.
What is chronological text structure?
List in order the elements of plot.
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
In Double Doubles, the references to celestial/space related ideas is to symbolize....
What is the idea of teamwork between the sisters? In space everything revovles around eachother, and on the court, the sister revolve and rely on each other.
Grammar: "Covered in hot melting cheese I ate the pizza". Because this modifier is placed away from the word it modifies, what is this called?
What is a misplaced modifier?
This point of view uses pronouns like "he," "she," or "they" to refer to characters.
What is third-person POV?
In this sentence... "at the rapidly filling rows to right and left, and then he looked no more. Already an immense crowd was present. Still it was not a typical college baseball audience." I was unsure of what the word immense meant. So I looked back and realized that the rows were filling quickly, so it made me think the word immense meant a lot of. What strategy is this called?
What is using context clues?
This strucuture presents various kinds of information about the topic- historical background, characteristics, examples, comments from experts, etc.
What is descriptive text structure?