What Figurative Language is this?
A pilot has a fear of heights.
Situational Irony.
Every middle school student should have their own cell phone.
Claim
The ending of the story. Where the main conflict gets resolved. Theme is usually present. Not always happy!
Resolution.
This teacher saved a student's life their first year of teaching.
Mr. Morello
Ged
The Wizard of Earthsea
What is the mood of this quote? "I should say it'll be okay. But nothing feels okay. I never want to go back to middle school" (McAnulty 263).
Defeated.
Technology has been and continues to be a blessing to humanity because it has helped grow economic systems, making civilizations more prosperous.
Claim
The series of events that happen in the story leading up to the climax. The major events and struggles. Builds UP!
Rising Actions.
What teacher is related to the president of Ireland?
Mr. Culhane
Billy Weaver
The Landlady
Lucy has a necklace shaped like a lightning bolt. The necklace has a deeper meaning. What type of figurative language is being shown through the lightning bolt necklace?
Haley, the main character, has both of her parents absent in her life. Haley unintentionally seems to be keeping the tragedies away from her friends. Everything that she felt was kept a secret.
Lead in.
The beginning of a story, including important details about the setting and main characters.
Exposition.
This teacher fell in a frozen pond when they were in middle school.
Ms. Pedrett
Three thugs looking for money!
The Treasure of Lemon Brown
A hint to something yet to come.
This evidence shows how Haley felt after opening up and talking to her friends, and how it felt to let go of something she didn't even know she was carrying.
Reasoning.
The first conflict in the story. This sets off the plot for the characters to begin their journey
Inciting incident.
This teacher is writing a book of their own.
Mr. Morello
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple
The Landlady
You just have to consider the world a stage and act accordingly.
Metaphor.
"I felt lighter. Free somehow. Like I'd been carrying the weight of that story in me, not even knowing it was heavy" (Woodson 156).
Evidence.
The turning point of the story. The MOST EXCITING part of the story. The moment that the rising action builds to
Climax.
What teacher coaches high school sports?
Mr. Culhane
Ogion
Wizard of EarthSea