Figurative Language
Story Elements
More Story Elements
Vocabulary
Inferences/Text Structures
100
The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!
What is Onomatopoeia
100
first person, second person or third person
What is Literary POV
100
place and period in which the action takes place
What is Setting
100
The prefix Chron- means
What is Time
100
Grandma Moses was born Anna Mary Robertson. When Anna Mary grew up, she was Mrs. Thomas Moses. She cooked and cleaned and did her part of the work on their farm. She picked berries and made butter to sell. Everyone said her butter was the best around. She and Thomas Moses had five children, and like most mothers in those days, most of her time was taken up by her children. Hiding between the lines is the idea that a. In the earlier years of her married life, Grandma Moses did all of the work on the farm. b. In the earlier years of her married life, Grandma Moses spent all her time caring for her family.
What is b. In the earlier years of her married life, Grandma Moses spent all her time caring for her family.
200
The wind yells while blowing
What is Personification
200
character most in conflict with protagonist
What is Antagonist
200
The beginning of the Story. Introducing characters, setting, background information
What is Exposition
200
To embellish means to
What is Decorate
200
Text Structure Thousand of people die each year in car accidents involving drugs or alcohol. Lives could be saved if our town adopts a free public taxi service. By providing such a service, we could prevent intoxicated drivers from endangering themselves or others.
What is Problem and Solution
300
The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert
What is Metaphor
300
controlling idea or its central insight
What is Theme
300
the sequence of events or happenings in a literary work.
What is Plot
300
The suffix -cide means
What is What is Kill
300
Text Structure when you walk into my bedroom there is a window facing you. To the right of that is a dresser and television and on the other side of the window is my bed
What is Spatial Order
400
She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.
What is Alliteration
400
Tomorrow I die and today I would unburden my soul
What is Foreshadowing
400
In Speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise
What is symbolism
400
If something is ambiguous, it is...
What is unclear
400
Sparta and Athens were Greek cities. Long ago, the people of both cities sent their children to school. The children learned different things there. In Sparta, the children went to school outdoors. They learned how to jump and run. They learned how to dance. They learned how to play many different games. In Athens, only boys went to school. They learned how to read, write, and speak correctly. They learned how to count and use numbers. Make an inference about schooling for girls in Sparta and Athens.
What is "Girls went to school in Sparta but not in Athens"?
500
My life is an open book. It lies here on a glass tabletop, its pages shamelessly exposed, outspread like a bird with hundreds of thin paper wings. ... No one has read the whole thing but me. Most dip into the middle for a few paragraphs, then move on to other shelves, other libraries. Some have time only for the illustrations. I love to feel the daily turning of the pages, the sentences unwinding like string, and when something really important happens, I walk out to the edge of the page and, always the student, make an asterisk, a little star, in the margin.
What is Extended Metaphor
500
Human v. human; human v. him/herself; good v. evil; nature v. supernatural...
What is Conflict
500
The writer's feelings on a specific topic
What is Tone
500
If something is Ubiquitous, it is...
What is (found) Everywhere
500
Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck is the narrator) Which of the following can you infer from the passage? a. Huck is an excellent student. b. Huck is not good at math. c. Huck has been going to school regularly his whole life. d. Huck has very good grammar.
What is Huck is not good at math.
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