Figurative Language
All the world is a stage.
What is a metaphor?
Action leading up to the climax of a story
What is rising action?
Hook, Background Information, Claim
How to write an introduction?
Don't get bamboozled by shady street vendors.
What is tricked or fooled?
What MUST you include in your essay?
Introduction with a claim, at least one body paragraph, conclusion
The wind sang. The trees shook.
What is personification?
The background information about the characters, setting, and conflict provided by the author to help the reader understand the story better.
What is exposition?
Topic Sentence, Context, Evidence, Reasoning
What is a body paragraph?
Listening to Drake is unbearable!
What is awful or painful?
What is one strategy you can use to help you stay focused and motivated?
Positive self-talk, take deep breaths, and bookmark difficult questions to come back to
It's a thousand degrees in here! Can we open a window?
What is hyperbole?
The organizational chunk of a poem; group of lines; like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
Claim, Summary, Final Thought
How to write a conclusion?
The medicine should help ameliorate the pain. Ameliorate means...
What is to ease the pain?
What is Mrs. LaMorte's dog's name?
Mocha
A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses.
What is imagery?
The pattern or beat of a poem.
What is rhythm?
Another name for a story.
What is a narrative?
Mr. Freely is a cantankerous, old man who’s always yelling at us to get off his lawn. I hate his guts! Cantankerous means...
What is mean, angry, or bad-tempered?
Author's Purpose for Informative, Argumentative, and Narrative essays
Informative: to inform/teach
Argumentative: to persuade
Narrative: to entertain
The woods are lovely dark and deep. But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is repetition?
Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.
What is rhyme?
R.S.T. stands for...
What is research simulation task?
Everybody was enraptured when the roller coaster did the big drop. Enraptured means...
What is full of excitement, or gives intense joy?
Elements of Plot
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution