Figurative Language
What is a simile?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
What is ethos?
appeal to writer's credibility
What is the setting of a writing?
Where the story takes place.
What do you do to the first letter in a sentence?
Capitalize it
The title, the previous paragraph, or the sections
What is personification?
What is pathos?
Appeal to the audience's emotions
What are the two types of conflict that a character goes through?
Internal and external conflict
What are conjunctions called that help you link sentences together to make a compound sentence?
FANBOYS
Unknown Words: what sentences do you re-read to discover the meaning of an unknown word?
The sentence before it, with the word in it, and the sentence after it
What is a hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration
What is logos?
Appeals to logic (facts/statistics)
Plot diagram: the point of highest intensity, and the turning point for the conflict in the text.
How do you properly format an in-text citation?
(Author's Last Name #).
Characterization: What should you pay attention to in order to analyze characterization?
Feelings, motivations, and their interactions with others
Simile, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, allusion, alliteration, symbolism, irony, paradox
What is rhetoric used for?
To persuade an audience
Plot diagram: The end of the story where the conflict is resolved and all of the loose ends are tied up.
Resolution
What are proper sources to use in your writing?
Evidence: What type of evidence can you rule out when looking for good evidence?
Unrelated evidence and partially correct evidence
What are the three types of irony?
Verbal, situational, and dramatic
Propoganda
What type of conflict is this: Macie is upset about how her hair is looking today. She stands in the mirror and cries, because she thinks people are going to make fun of her at school.
Internal conflict
What are the differences between the three "there"s?
There = location "over there"
Their = ownership "that is theirs"
They're = they + are "they're going to the fair"
Author's POV: how do you analyze an author's point of view?
Read the title/first few sentences and analyze the author's anecdotes, word choice, figurative language, and research/stats.