Vocabulary
Keeping safe from harm
Protective
What is setting?
Time and Place
First, second, and finally are examples of
Sequence words
Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
A character has a diaper in her hand, spit on her shirt, and a bottle warming. What can you infer about her?
She is a mother.
The state of something, such as appearance or quality
Conditions
What is the setting: "Mr. Mark walked up to the teller and handed her a paper slip. She punched a few numbers into the computer and handed him back a slip along with some $20 bills."?
What is a bank?
How is Bill characterized? Bill sighed as he looked at the offer of a gym membership. He really should join. But just thinking about it made beads of sweat collect at the top of his bald spot
What is lazy?
Faster, faster, faster!
Repetition
Your friend walks past you and wipes a tear from her eyes. She looks down at her report card with a melancholy gaze. What can you infer?
She did not get good grades.
Change
Reform
What is the setting: "Alex realized that he had disturbed them and held up his hand apologetically. The librarian turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps louder than the noise that he had made. Alex put the laptop in his bag and began walking toward the door. He held his head down low."
What is a library?
What types of imagery are there: "I listened to the birds chirp and sing see-saws up in the trees that were beginning to burst out in brilliant pink and white buds. The earth smelled fresh with greenery that was finally emerging with the new season of life" ?
Sound, sight, smell
The smell of fresh coffee wafted through the warm apartment.
Imagery
"I hate the idea of having all those people out there watching me...I just don't like it when I'm around so many people. I wish I just could hide somewhere," whispered Violet. What kind of person is Violet?
Shy, introverted.
Health, comfort, and happiness
Welfare
How is the setting described? It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black … It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long.
What is polluted or dirty?
What point of view is it: "Yet, even though she was a doctor, my mother constantly suffered from various health problems"?
First person.
"We love doing tests," the students exclaimed.
Irony
Socrates is a man, and all men are mortal. What can we infer?
Socrates is mortal.
Extremely cruel behavior
Inhumanity
What is the setting? Bod stopped beside a grave that looked the way he felt; it was beneath an oak that had once been struck by lightning, and now was just a black trunk, like a sharp talon coming out of the hill; the grave itself was water-stained and cracked, and above it was a memorial stone on which a headless angel hung, its robes looking like a huge and ugly tree-fungus.
What is a cemetery?
How is the woman characterized?
My woman’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her skin is dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
What is ugly?
The wind whipped water at her face.
Alliteration
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; I consider it high time to get to sea.