What's the Big Idea?
Genre
Figurative Language
Narrative
Expository
100
This is the author's purpose in writing the following article: It's lunchtime. But high school junior Parrish Jackson has barely touched her turkey burger and apricots. She’s dumping them into the trash can. The apricots are “sour,” says the 16-year-old at Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles. The meat is “nasty.” If it were up to her, she would just have taken the potato wedges and headed to the student store to fuel up on hot Cheetos and juice. And so it goes on hundreds of campuses in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The district is the nation’s second-largest school system and serves 650,000 meals a day. Students throw out at least $100,000 worth of food a day — and probably far more, according to David Binkle, the district’s food services director. That comes to $18 million a year — based on the estimate that 10 percent of the food is wasted. The money, Binkle says, would be far better spent on higher quality food, such as strawberries or watermelons. A. To entertain the reader B. To persuade the reader C. To inform the reader D. To show the reader How To
What is: C. To inform the reader
100
"Tartok roared and surged forward to greet him, her long, shaggy arms open. Tom sensed the good Beast's joy and relief as he stepped into the clearing. But the chain jerked her back, and her face crumpled with pain and anger as she tugged at the heavy iron links that held her captive to the amber rock."
What is narrative?
100
The following lines from Christina Rosetti's poem "Flint" are an example of what type of figurative language? An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
What is simile?
100
This includes everything within a narrative story: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
What is plot?
100
The author includes these words below a picture or illustration within a selection...
What is caption?
200
The main idea of the article is: A. Students are too picky B. Too much money is being wasted on uneaten food C. It's better to not eat at all than to eat unhealthy foods D. Schools should consider serving more popular snack foods
What is: B. Too much money is being wasted on uneaten food
200
"Wednesday, 13 January, 1943 Dear Kitty, Everything has upset me again this morning, so I wasn't able to finish a single thing properly. It is terrible outside. Day and night more of those people are being dragged off, with nothing but a rucksack and a little money.
What is memoir?
200
Where is the metaphor in the following line? Her heart was stone as he knelt in the dirt pleading with her to give him one more chance.
What is "her heart was stone"?
200
This is when a writer includes descriptive language that helps the reader see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the great details of the story.
What is sensory language?
200
The author might include a synonym, antonym, example or explanation within the same sentence.
What is a context clue?
300
The message or lesson about life that the reader learns from a story.
What is: Theme
300
"One object, not a pyramid, that was built during the Forth Dynasty rivals even the pyramids in fame. This is a huge carving of a recumbent lion built near the causeway to Khafre's pyramid and only 1200 feet southeast of the Great Pyramid. It is a natural outcropping of rock, the shape of which may have suggested a crouching lion, and the sculptor's chisel did the rest."
What is expository?
300
What is an example of personification in these lines from the poem "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth? A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
What is "fluttering and dancing in the breeze"?
300
The author can present a story as written by the perspective of one specific character - or perhaps by a narrator, presenting the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is point of view?
300
When the author requires the reader to identify similarities and differences between an article and a poem, they are asking the reader to . . .
What is: Compare and contrast
400
This is when you briefly retell the main ideas and only most important details of a piece of writing in your own words.
What is: Summary
400
"I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about 12 miles from Easton, in Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant."
What is autobiography?
400
The words deep, darkness, doubting, dreaming dreams, dared from Poe's "The Raven" are an example of what kind of figurative language? •Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
What is alliteration?
400
The problem, or conflict, of a story can be presented as being inside the mind or heart of a character. The conflict can also involve another character, thing, or force of nature. (2 part answer)
What is internal and external conflict?
400
"Jared woke up when his alarm went off at 6:00 am. He quickly showered, brushed his teeth, and got dressed for school. At 7:00 am, he was in the car, driving steadily towards school. 30 minutes later, Jared walked through the front doors and headed straight to the courtyard to meet his friends. They all stood and talked together. 15 minutes after that, the first bell rang, and, saying goodbye, Jared quickly walked to first period." This author has organized this passage in the order the events happened. What is this order called?
What is chronological order?
500
A logical guess that you can make based on facts and your own knowledge of the story
What is: An inference
500
"At age 16, Maya Angelou wanted to become a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. However, the railway would not hire female or African-American drivers. Supported by organizations that backed her cause, after three weeks, she became San Francisco's first female African-American driver. She has been a dancer, an actor, a mother, a poet, and a songwriter."
What is biography?
500
Hyperbole is a form of exaggeration that authors use to make a point. Which line from this limerick by Lear shows hyperbole? There was a Young Lady whose nose,/ Was so long that it reached to her toes;/ So she hired an Old Lady,/ Whose conduct was steady,/ To carry that wonderful nose.
What is "was so long that it reached to her toes"?
500
When the author uses such detailed and clear language so as to create a picture in the mind of the reader...
What is imagery?
500
The information in paragraphs 2-3 of the passage "Pyramids From Two Cultures" uses the following organization pattern. A. By contrasting how each pyramid was used B. By describing what each pyramid contained C. By explaining how long each pyramid will last D. By comparing the place where each pyramid was built
What is A. By contrasting how each pyramid was used
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