Paranormal Plot
Mara enters the abandoned mansion. A door slams upstairs, though she is certain she is alone.
Which stage of plot does this event most likely represent?
Rising action
An article describes how bats use echolocation to find food in the dark. It details how bats emit sounds and interpret the echoes that return to them.
What is the author's primary purpose for writing the article?
To explain how echolocation works.
The cemetery gates yawned open beneath the moonlight.
What type of figurative language is being used?
Personification
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
How many stanzas are in this poem?
Two
Every October, Derry celebrates its fall festival, attracting people from nearby towns. They walk the streets in their costumes, go on hayrides, and participate in pumpkin carving contests. It is also an opportunity for people to visit the town's supposedly haunted lighthouse. Local businesses report their highest sales of the year during the festival. Despite the town's troubled history, people keep going back for more!
Which detail in the paragraph BEST suggests that the festival is beneficial to the town?
"Local businesses report their highest sales of the year during the festival."
After waiting a thousand years for the haunted house tour to begin, Jack finally got to go inside.
What type of figurative language is being used?
Hyperbole
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is the author's attitude towards the subject of their writing, while mood is the way the reader feels when reading a text.
After weeks of hearing whispers in the attic, Sam finally opens the locked trunk. Inside is a recording of Sam's own voice...dated fifty years earlier.
What plot element is represented in this example?
Climax
Every October, Derry celebrates its fall festival, attracting people from nearby areas. They walk the streets in their costumes, go on hayrides, and participate in pumpkin carving contests. It is also an opportunity for people to visit the town's supposedly haunted lighthouse. Local businesses report their highest sales of the year during the festival.
Which type of informational text element would BEST help prove the claim in the LAST sentence, and WHY?
A chart or graph are some examples of informational text elements that would help show that local businesses have the highest sales of the year during the festival. It can be a bar graph that compares their sales across different months of the year, for example.
A footnote is an example of an informational text element that would help show that local businesses have the highest sales of the year during the festival by citing the a credible source that they received this information from.
By midnight, fear had become a parasite, feeding on every thought in Jordan's mind.
What is fear compared to, and what does this comparison suggest about Jordan's experience?
Fear is compared to a parasite. The metaphor suggests that fear is consuming Jordan's thoughts and becoming difficult to escape.
Our teacher gave detention
to the fountains in the hall.
She handed extra homework
to the artwork on the wall.
Where is there a line break in this poem excerpt?
After "detention" or after "homework"
Before leaving, the old woman whispers, “Whatever you do, don't answer the third knock.”
What makes this an example of foreshadowing? (In other words, what does it hint?)
It hints that the third knock will lead to an important or dangerous event.
An article titled The Truth Behind Haunted Houses includes a section headed The Science of Strange Sounds, a graph comparing reported hauntings by location, and a footnote citing a university study.
Which informational text element provides the strongest support for the article's credibility, and why?
The footnote, because it identifies a source readers can use to verify the information.
The cemetery swallowed the moonlight, while the wind whispered secrets through the trees and the shadows stretched their skeleton fingers toward the path.
What is the strongest example of figurative language used in this sentence? You must identify the type of figurative language and the phrase where it's used.
"The cemetery swallowed the moonlight" = personification
or
"The wind whispered secrets through the streets" = personification
What is an intended effect an author might have when they use short line lengths in their poem?
Short line lengths are typically used to convey suspense, fleeting emotions, control the reader's eye, or set a particular pace.
Other responses welcome as long as they can be justified.