Vocab
What the text is mainly about, can most often be stated in one sentence
What is Central/Main Idea?
A story that tells a series of events
What is a narrative?
The time and place (or when and where) of a story
What is Setting?
The narrator is a character in the story, telling the story from their own point of view
(using the pronouns "I" or "we")
What is First Person Point-of-View?
The summer of my seventh-grade year, my family and I took a vacation to our "home" in Nigeria, where my parents were born. My cousin and I were playing cards talking girl talk, and relating our most embarrassing moments.
What POV is this passage?
First Person
How the characters react to the incident (their thoughts, dialogue, and actions)
What is Response?
metaphor, simile, hyperbole, idiom, and personification
What is Figurative Language?
The sequence of events that make up a story
What is Plot?
The reader is immersed into the narrative as a character involved in the story
(Uses "you")
What is Second Person Point-of-View?
You walk through the bustling school hallway, the chatter of other students a distant hum as you look for your locker. Your fingers trace the familiar combination lock, and you breathe a sigh of relief when it clicks open. Inside, you shove your backpack, feeling the weight of all your books. As you turn to head to class, you bump into someone, sending a stack of papers scattering across the floor.
What point of view is this passage?
Second Person
What the characters learn
What is Reflection?
When you use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of detail to writing
What is Sensory Details?
a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story--used to perform actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line
Uses the pronouns she, hers, him, his, they, theirs, it
What is Third Person Point-of-View
In May, close to graduation, spring fever has truck as usual with a vengeance. No one paid any attention in class; instead we stared out the windows and at each other, wanting to speed up the last few weeks of school.
First Person
A category or type of literature that shares similar styles, forms, or features, helping to classify books, poems, or plays
What is Genre?
The textbook definition of a word
Denotation
Theme
Perspective/Point of View
Arachne was a maiden who became famous throughout Greece, though she was neither wellborn nor beautiful and came from no great city. She lived in an obscure little village, and her father was a humble dyer of wool.
What POV is this passage?
Third Person
The biography of oneself narrated by oneself
What is Autobiography?
The implied meaning of a word
Connotation
In a narrative, a struggle between opposing forces
What is Conflict?
The narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they
What is Third Person Point-of-View?
Still Phaethon could not hold his horses, and still they galloped upward dragging light and warmth away from the earth. Finally they went so high that the air was too thing to breathe. Phaethon saw the flame of their breath, which has been red and yellow, burn blue in the thing air. He himself was gasping for breath; he felt the marrow of his bones freezing.
What point of view is this passage?
Third person