What counts as literature?
Poems, dramas, fictional/narrative stories
What are the paragraphs of poems called?
Stanzas
What word is this the definition of:
An author’s attitude toward the meaning.
Tone
How old is Mrs. D'Angelo
34
What should you do in the last 5 minutes of a testing period?
GUESS AND LEAVE NOTHING BLANK!
What is theme?
What main character learns from the solving the conflict. Moral, message, or lesson of story.
The use of descriptive language to create mental pictures
Imagery
What word is this the definition of:
The most important point the author tries to make.
Central Idea
What does "contribute" mean in a test question? for example "How does paragraph 1 contribute to the overall passage"
What does a part of the passage ADD to the story or text?
When you do not know the answer to a question after 2 or 3 min, what should you do?
flag it or bookmark it, and come back to it at the end
Dialogue
What is the type of figurative language makes nonhuman things human?
Personification
What word is this the definition of:
Main reason of writing
Author’s Purpose
What is the text structure that gives order of events with explicit dates and times?
Chronological Order
What is information that supports a claim?
EVIDENCE
Specific facts, examples, or descriptions that are used to clarify, prove, or further explain the central idea
Supporting Details
What is the purpose of metaphors & similes?
To compare two unlikely objects or concepts. To illustrate a meaning.
Ex. “The sun was a gleaming pearl.”
inference
What are 2 of the 5 different purposes of writing?
Persuade,
Inform, Explain
Entertain, Describe
What is a strategy to help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word?
Context clues or connotation
What strategies can be used to figure out the summary of a story?
Answer the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of a story?
What word is this the definition of:
The repetition of sounds at the end of words which produces a musical quality & creates unity.
Rhyme
The perspective or opinion an author holds on a particular topic they are writing about
author’s point of view
What are at least 2 the five types of text structure?
Problem & Solution
Compare & Contrast, Chronological/Sequence
Descriptive, Cause & Effect
The main idea or point that the author wants to convey. It's the author's belief that they want to convince the reader to share
authors’ claim