Revise and Edit
I finished my homework I went to bed.
I finished my homework, and I went to bed.
I finished my homework, so I went to bed.
Infer
Educated Guess based off clues from the text
It’s raining cats and dogs.
Hyperbole
Author’s Purpose
The reason why an author wrote the story
Diction
The author’s choice of words
Josh went fishing and caught a 42 inch red 3 trouts a stingray and two skipjacks.
What does this sentence need?
Commas
plot
Sequence of events
The trees danced in the wind.
Personification
Characterization
Details provided by the author to describe a character in the story
Tone
The author’s feelings
You are writing a diary entry about yesterday: “Yesterday, I eat pizza and watch a movie.”
Which verb correction should you make?
Yesterday, I ate pizza and watched a movie.
P.I.E.
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
While I am excited that graduation is around the corner, it’s also a very bittersweet moment.
Bittersweet: oxymoron
Thesis
The main idea of the story
In literature, when one character’s personality highlights another’s differences, this device is being used.
Character Foil
Ms. O has many hobbies she likes to cook, do arts and crafts, dance, travel, and go to concerts. What do we need here?
A colon to list all of her hobbies
Intended audience
The audience the author wrote the story for
Her confidence faded like a dying ember
Like- Simile
Mood
The reader’s feelings
The perspective in which a story is told
Point of view
When do we use a semicolon
To separate two complete sentences
Internal Conflict
A problem a character is facing internally (on the inside)
Memory is a fading photograph, slowly losing its color.
Metaphor
Theme
Moral of the story, the lesson learned.
The struggle between two opposing characters
Conflict