Comprehension
What is the name of the main character in our core text?
Melinda Sordino (Speak)
Frenchie (The Marrow Thieves)
What is the main difference between analysis and summary?
In analysis, you have to make a claim.
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
Both are comparing two things, but similes use 'like' or 'as' to do so.
What is the plot of a text?
The sequence of events.
What is the protagonist?
The main character, whose actions drive the plot.
Where is the novel set? (Be specific!)
Merryweather High (Speak)
A dystopian future Canada (The Marrow Thieves)
What do you need to support a claim in any analysis?
Evidence!
What is an allusion?
A reference to another person/place/text/event.
What is the resolution of a text?
The end of the story. A time of closure, when the main conflict of a story is resolved.
What is the exposition?
Why is Melinda an outcast?
She called the cops on a party.
What kind of specific focus could a literary analysis look at?
Any literary element, such as theme or characterization.
What does it mean to personify something? (personification)
To give a non-human thing human qualities.
What is the theme of a text? (Be specific!)
The author's message about a central idea in the text. Must be a complete sentence.
What is the antagonist?
The character who opposes or challenges the protagonist (the main character).
Who or what is the central antagonist?
Andy Evans or the entire student body of Merryweather High (Speak)
The Canadian government's Recruiters (The Marrow Thieves)
What are synonyms for 'analyze'?
Examine or interpret.
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration.
What is the tone of a text?
The author's attitude toward people, places, events, or things.
What is the conflict in a text?
an internal or external struggle between opposing forces
What is one of the themes of the novel? You can answer with one that we've discussed or one that you come up with yourself.
Friends should be carefully chosen.
Speaking up is hard, but necessary.
If we don't ask for help when we need it, we can't heal.
When you explain your evidence in an analysis paragraph, what are you connecting the evidence to? (What are you using the evidence to prove?)
Your claim! The first, topic sentence.
Give me an example of imagery.
Anything with sensory details.
What is the difference between rising and falling action?
Rising action is when tension and complications are increasing. Falling action is when they are decreasing as they are resolved.
What is the climax of a story?
The most dramatic moment, a turning point in the story.