The Message
This is most important message/lesson the writer wants you to know in one centence
What is central idea?
A scene in a story that shows you an event from the character's past.
What is a flashback?
A comparison between 2 different things using the words like or as. Example: Like is like a theater.
What is a simile?
The exact time, place, location where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
To use what you already know to make a guess about a text or draw a conclusion
What is to make a inference or to infer?
The 3 main reasons why an author writes a text: to inform, to persuade or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
A literary device where an author gives you clues or hints about things that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Giving human characteristics to non human things.
The books would stand at attention
What is personification?
A struggle between 2 opposing forces which can be an external or an internal battle.
What is conflict?
When something happens in a text that is completely opposite of what you would logically expect to happen.
What is Irony?
The author's attitude in a text. Examples: sympathetic, enraged or casual.
What is tone?
A very short story significant to a topic that adds personal knowledge or real- life experience
What is an anecdote?
A direct comparison without using like or as.
The way the writer feels about a topic or the way a character's personal attitude is shown.
What is perspective?
A common word used on the Regents exam to that means to show and lets you know something hidden about a character.
What is reveal?
The feeling a reader gets when reading a text.
What is mood?
To show, express or pass on a feeling or idea.
What is convey?
A massive exaggeration used to describe something by making it bigger than it really is.
What is a Hyperbole?
The process by which the author shows the personality of a character.
What is characrterization?
Something that goes against something in a text.
What is contradicts?
The background situation, events or information related to a story that helps you fully understand the entire text.
What is context?
When an author uses an animal or object to represent a much bigger idea (example heart = love)
What is symbolism?
A writing strategy -- an author's specific word choice example formal/informal to create an effect/
What is diction?
Using the same line, phrase again and again to create a structural effect.
What is repetition?
Text arrangements such as: rhetorical questions, compare/contrast chronological order and problem/solution
What is text structure?