Genre
Rappers often write songs with a lot of rhyming words and descriptive words that help to experience emotion. What genre would typically have these features?
What is Poetry?
What 2 things do we use to make an inference?
What background knowledge and information from the text?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
Words that mean the sound they make. Ex. Pow! Wahm! Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
What kind of mascot does Shaw Elementary have?
What is a bulldog?
This genre is read to perform. You must understand the importance of stage directions.
What is drama?
A plot includes a series of ________.
What are the events?
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that take part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
What is a comparison using like or as to compare two different things?
What is a simile?
How many hours do you have for the STAAR test?
What are four hours?
You read to learn how to do something. Must follow text features and interpret graphics.
What is procedural?
Cheerful, creative, mean, and positive are examples of a character's _______?
What is a character trait?
Name two functions of setting
Where and when the story takes place?
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is imagery or sensory language?
What is the name of the rapper with immigration problems we talked about in Social Studies?
Who is 21Savage?
Read to gather information about real people, places, or events. Must be able to summarize details, recognize facts and opinion, interpret graphics features.
What is expository?
To communicate, or express.
What is convey?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been resolved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
How was the first African American female doctor to travel to space?
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
Tells about the life of a real person. Usually told in chronological order and written in the third person.
What is a biography?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood is an example of?
What is alliteration?
___________ is a struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in the classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is hyperbole?
What do we call the structure that soldiers dug in WWI?
What are trenches?