Figurative Language
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
Name the 4 types of sentences we've learned.
What are simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
How the author "shows" what each character is like.
What is characterization?
You begin your writing with this to grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook or lead?
The 3 dramatic elements that can be found in plays.
What are stage directions, dialogue and scenes and acts?
When the narrator tells you directly what the character is like.
What is direct characterization?
When a narrator tells a story we say the story is told from this point of view.
What is third person point of view?
Crash, Bam, Ring, Quack are examples of this type of figurative language.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Using the text around a word to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
List 3 transition words that help make your writing flow better.
What are after, such as, also, first, second, third, then, next, lastly, finally, therefore, not only, meanwhile...
This names the life lesson, meaning, moral or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work. What the story teaches readers.
What is Theme?
Name the 8 parts of speech.
What are nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, pronouns and prepositions?
Name 3 ways the author uses indirect characterization to describe their characters.
What are speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions and looks?
Making sure your title is appropriate, checking for a strong opening, making sure your story is well-organized, and checking for strong word choice are examples of this.
What is revising?
A true story of a person's life that is told by another person.
What is a Biography?
Name the dependent and independent clauses in the following sentence...
Although Ponyboy was a Greaser, he liked reading books and he loved going to see movies.
What is Although Ponyboy was a Greaser- dependent, he liked reading and he loved going to see movies- independent?
Using the information in the text to determine the author's meaning.
What is making inferences?
Checking for grammar mistakes and spelling errors are examples of this.
What is editing?
One independent clause and a dependent clause, combined with a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?