Vocabulary
What does analyze mean?
Analyze means to examine closely.
What is irony?
Irony is the contradiction between expectation and reality.
Example: A fire station burning down, or a pilot afraid of heights
Seeing a person clutching their stomach and walking into a hospital. What can you infer from this scenario?
The person is sick.
Revising, remove the redundant phrase:
The ATM machine is out of money.
Remove machine as ATM means, Automatic Teller Machine.
What is the difference between connotative and denotative?
Connotative: How it makes you feel.
Denotative: The literal meaning; definition meaning.
What does convey mean?
Convey means to communicate or express.
Both a metaphor and simile are the same, they compare two things using vivid language, how are they different?
Simile uses "like" or "as" and metaphors do not!
Example: I'm as hungry as a horse. (Simile)
He has a heart of gold. (Metaphor)
What is the theme?
Students are addicted to technology, they use it at all times of the day. They even lose sleep over endless scrolling on social media apps. This has resulted in lower academic progress for students and a lowered attention span.
The impact of technology on teens.
Fix the following sentences using punctuation.
The student did not study. for the test, so, he failed.
The student did not study for the test, so he failed.
What is a synonym? What is an antonym?
Synonym is a word that means the same thing.
Example: Happy/Joyful
Antonym is a word that means the opposite.
Example: Happy/Sad
What is text evidence?
Text evidence is supporting information from the text. (DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE TEXT! REPEAT WITH ME: COPY AND PASTE EVIDENCE!!!)
Give me an example of an oxymoron.
Oxymoron's are two words that contradict each other. Example: Living dead.
What can you infer?
"The girl was shivering and wrapped her scarf tighter."
It is cold, or getting colder.
How can I start my sentence off citing evidence in my essay responses?
"The text states...."
"The author says..."
"One example from the text states..."
Answers will vary.
What can we determine about the word noxious from the context clues?
The air was full of noxious materials, such as smoke from the chemical plant and emissions from jets".
"Smoke" and "emissions" are examples of noxious (harmful) things.
What is tone?
Tone is the author's attitude towards the subject of his/her writing.
What is the purpose of symbolism and an example of it?
Symbolism is using objects to represent abstract ideas.
Examples will vary: The raven in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" symbolizes death.
Tony decided he was no longer going to let people hold him down; he also decided he could no longer be free in a place that would never let him grow as a man.
Freedom.
How can you paraphrase the following?
A group of researchers at the Pew Research Center did a study in 2014 to see if young adults are more likely to live with their parents or partners to gain independence.
A 2014 study by the Pew Research Center found that young adults were more likely to live with parents than with partners, suggesting a shift in economic independence.
Use context clues to determine the meaning of petrified:
"She hated spiders, so when she came across a huge, hairy tarantula, she was petrified!".
If you hate spiders and see a huge one, you would be terrified, so petrified means scared.
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is text structure?
Text structure is the way in which the author organizes his/her writing.
Examples:
*Chronological (in time sequence order),
*Cause/Effect (this happened because of this...), *Compare/Contrast (this is better than that because...),
*Description (describing a situation), *Problem/Solution (Here is the problem, here is the solution).
Give me an example of alliteration.
Answers will vary, but should repeat constant sounds.
Example: Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
What can you infer from this sentence?
Suppose early one Friday morning you see your neighbor load a suitcase into his car but clothes are sticking out of the sides.
You can infer your neighbor is going somewhere in a hurry.
Daily Double: Correct the capitalization errors and use a semicolon to fix the following sentence:
stamford university students are encouraged to participate in community events. students can even receive extra credit for attending the events.
Stamford University students are encouraged to participate in community events; students can even receive extra credit for attending the events.
Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word deluge.
"The deluge—a severe, overwhelming flood of rain—threatened to drown the little town".
The phrase set off by dashes defines deluge.