Craft and Structure
When the audience knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
Present, present participle, past, past participle
What are principle parts of verbs?
The reason an author writes a text
What is author's purpose?
6 million
What is the approximate number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?
Using clues from the text and your knowledge to make an educated guess
What is inferencing?
The conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
What is internal motivation?
The main thing the author wants the audience to know.
What is author's message?
A verb tense that describes an action or a condition that was or will be completed before a certain time, or a past action or condition that continues into the present.
What is a perfect tense of a verb?
You hear a scream of pain from the garage. As you enter the garage, you notice a hammer on the floor and your dad is holding his thumb.
What is dad hit his thumb with the hammer?
Helping readers learn about the characters, setting the mood, developing the conflicts between characters to develop the plot.
What are the purposes of dialogue?
A character's motivation that includes factors in the setting or situation, such as war or poverty.
What is external motivation?
To inspire
What is author's purpose?
The most important idea about the topic that a paragraph or an entire selection conveys.
What is the central idea of a passage?
Hitler has taken control of Germany. A young girl walks into a shop and is told to leave. The store owner explains that he is unable to do business with her.
What is Jewish?
An educated guess that you reach from analyzing details; for example, if someone comes into a room with a wet umbrella, you can guess that it is raining outside without needing the person to tell you that directly.
What is an inference?
Suffix -ent
What makes a verb or noun into an adjective?
A writer writes a story about an embarrassing moment to entertain his audience.
What is one author's purpose?
To entertain, inform or persuade
What are three purposes an author might have?
Mr. Van Dan and Mr. Dussel hate Peter's cat. One day the cat disappears.
What is one of them put the cat outside?
Words that can join independent clauses into a compound sentence, such as "and, but, so, and yet" to make your writing smoother.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
Simple tenses of verbs
What shows the time of an action or condition (or when something happened)?
A speech given with this ending sentence:
If we do not take action now, our oceans could become unusable. Write your congressperson and tell them how important it is to not pollute!
What is to persuade people to keep litter out of the oceans?
What is a panel?
Miep risks her life to hide the Franks and keep them safe. You can tell from her actions that she disagrees with the way Jews are being treated even though she does not say that.
What is inferring?