Poetry
What is a haiku?
A poem about nature.
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is setting?
Where it takes place.
What's the difference between informational and literary text?
Literary text is a story, while informational is factual and meant to inform.
What the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue?
Soliloquy is said alone on stage, a monologue is a long speech given to another character.
What is a elegy?
A poem about death.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison without like of as.
What is main idea?
What the story is mainly about.
What is a thesis?
A statement that sums up what the essay will be about.
Comedy vs. tragedy?
Comedy is funny and ends in a wedding. A tragedy is serious and ends in death/destruction.
What is a sonnet?
A poem that's 14 lines long and is about love.
What is personification?
When you give human qualities to things that are not human.
What is theme?
The moral or lesson of the story.
What are the different type of text structures?
cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, chronological, sequence, order of importance, spatial
What's an inference?
An educated guess.
What is a alliteration?
What is consonance?
When the consonant letters are the same.
What are the four different kinds of P.O.V?
1st, 2nd, 3rd limited, 3rd omniscient.
What is the difference between chronological and sequence?
sequence has steps and no time involved, while chronological is time.
What is connotation and denotation?
Connotation is the positive or negative feeling of a word. denotation is the actual definition.
What is assonance?
When the vowels in words next to each other, are the same.
Give an example of consonance.
I could hear the pitter, patter of the rain. (something like this)
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is how we feel when reading something, tone is the authors attitude/feeling to what he wrote.
What are 2 things that make an informational essay different from an argumentative essay?
Counterclaim paragraph, call to action, and claim.
What are the 5 types of author purpose?
inform, entertain, persuade, describe, and teach.