Grammar
Vocabulary
Literary Devices
Active Reading
The Mix Up
100
words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings
What are homophones?
100
time, place, and social environment
What is setting?
100
This is an example of text support for __________________: "The smell of sunscreen infected my nose"
What is imagery?
100
But one evening her husband reached home with a triumphant air and holding a large envelope in his hand. What point of view is this statement written from?
What is third person?
100
verbal, situational, dramatic
What are the three types of irony?
200
They are in contraction form (SPELL IT OUT)
What is t-h-e-y-'-r-e?
200
the person who is telling the story
What is the narrator?
200
See, Hear, Smell, Feel, Taste
What are the five senses?
200
"True! I never thought of it." What literary device is this?
What is dialogue?
200
what other characters think or how they feel about the character, how they react to him/her
What is effects on others?
300
I know (whose, who's) jacket this is. Which homophone?
What is whose?
300
the opposite of what you expect
What is irony?
300
look for pronouns; ask if the narrator is a character in the story.
What is how to discover point of view?
300
Francis Macomber had, half an hour before, been carried to his tent from the edge of the camp in triumph on the arms and shoulders of the cook, the personal boys, the skinner and the porters. The gun-bearers had taken no part in the demonstration. When the native boys put him down at the door of his tent, he had shaken all their hands, received their congratulations, and then gone into the tent and sat on the bed until his wife came in. She did not speak to him when she came in and he left the tent at once to wash his face and hands in the portable wash basin outside and go over to the dining tent to sit in a comfortable canvas chair in the breeze and the shade. This statement could be used to find support for what three literary devices?
What are characterization, point of view, and setting?
300
Ex: Miss Riley is short. ___________________________: “Miss Riley can’t even touch the projector in her classroom.”
What is textual evidence?
400
proper nouns and the first word in a sentence
What is words that we capitalize?
400
This is an example of text support for __________________: "She spoke rudely to everyone. She walked with her nose in the air and her pose following."
What is characterization?
400
S.T.E.A.L
What is how to discover characterization?
400
Active Reading
What is underlining important information, asking myself questions as I read, reacting to the words on the page, concentrating while reading? (other answers will be accepted if Miss Riley finds them to be correct)
400
Jess ran Too miles thursday at Cheer practice. What changes need to be made? Give direction for the changes--spelling out each word that needs to be changed.
What is Too-->two; thursday-->Thursday; Cheer-->cheer?
500
Each of the people in the audience (is, are) from Central High School. Which verb?
What is "is"?
500
This is an example of text support for __________________: I am writing to tell you my own story. I was four years old when my mom left me at my first day of preschool.
What is first person point of view?
500
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.
What is setting?
500
This is an example of text support for __________________: "...in a black satin box, a superb diamond necklace,...She fastened it round her throat, outside her high-necked waist, and was lost in ecstasy at her reflection in the mirror."
What is imagery?
500
Trell rolled her eyes, put her head on her desk, sighed and wouldn't complete her work after Miss Riley asked her to sign the tardy sheet. Characterize Trell.
What is disrespectful/late/upset? (Other answers will be accepted if they are support by the statement).
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