Main Idea
What is Main Idea?
What the author wants you to take away from the passage.
What are the three forms of irony?
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
What are the three forms of author's purpose?
What is..
To Persuade
To Entertain
To Inform
In Monkey's Paw, who introduces the paw into the story?
Sergeant-Major Morris
What road is this school on?
Harts Bridge Road
What is the first line of a paragraph called?
Topic Sentence
True or False:
A passage can only have one type of irony.
False
What is the author's purpose of this passage?
At the age of 17, Albert Einstein, who developed
the theory of relativity, failed his University
Entrance Exam.
To Inform
What caused Mr. Nuttle to run out of the house?
He saw the three men who he thought were ghost.
On the back of a dollar bill, what is in the center?
ONE
Conrad is Ms. Fetting’s new puppy! He is a one year old boxer/lab mix. His favorite activities include jumping five feet in the air, looking out the window, and riding in the car. He also love long walks through the store Petco, and enjoy eating all the treats on the shelf even though my humans haven’t paid for them!
All about Conrad and what he likes to do
What form of irony is this?
“Be careful. My dog is as friendly as a
rattlesnake,” said the owner with a baleful grin.
Verbal
What is the author's purpose?
In the last 10 minutes, you have blinked your eyes around 200 times. You have probably not been aware of any of these interruptions in your visual world. Something you probably have not seen in a long time without the aid of a mirror is your nose. It is always right there, down in the bottom corner of your vision, but your brain filters it out so that you are not aware of your nose unless you purposefully look at it.
Inform
In "The Purloined Letter" what event took place outside of the Minister's apartment that allowed Dupin to get the letter?
A gun was fired.
On a standard traffic light, is the green light on the top or the bottom?
Bottom
The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelic and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania.”
The Beatles were a very popular group in the 60's!
Why is this situation ironic?
A child runs away from someone who is throwing a water balloon at him because he does not want to get wet. And as he is running away he falls into the nearby pool.
Because the child ended up getting more wet then he would have been if he had just let the water balloon hit him.
What is the purpose of this passage?
In her scathing review, the film critic described
the three-hour documentary “as enjoyable as a
root canal.”
To persuade you NOT to watch the documentary.
What was the name of the island that sailors feared in "The Most Dangerous Game"
Ship-Trap Island
What two letters don't appear on a telephone dial?
Q,Z
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Be honest with yourself, and do the right thing
True or False:
The man who invented the stop sign, cross-walk, one way sign, traffic circle, and the taxi stand never knew how to drive.
True: Bonus: What form of irony is this?
Several West Tennessee schools have closed due to weather.
Below is a list of schools that are closed for one or more days this week. We will update this list as more closures are announced.
Bells City Schools will be closed for the rest of the week (February 7-8).
Benton County Schools will be closed Thursday (February 7).
Carroll County Schools will be closed Thursday (February 7).
Alamo City Schools will also be closed for the remainder of the week (February 7-8).
To Inform
How much is fifty thousand francs in US dollars?
$50,340.30
What gas is formed when a hyrdogen bomb is detonated?
Helium