Literary Terms
Theme
What is the big message about life or meaning that an author tries to share with the audience?
Wedding rings
What is an example of a symbol?
to make an educated guess
What is to infer?
Dictionary
What is a resource you can use on any part of the English STAAR?
Monday, December 17th through Thursday, December 20th.
What are the days for fall semester final exams?
Metaphor
What is a comparison between two unlike things for emphasis or effect?
"One by one, like sheep in a dream, they passed through the hedgerow...."
What is an example of a simile?
To show something that was previously hidden
What is to reveal?
Five hours
What is the time frame for the English 2 STAAR test?
Six
What is the number of credits you need to become a 10th grader?
Personification
What is the literary device where objects, animals or ideas are given human characteristics?
"Tie the poem to a chair and beat a confession out of it."
What is an example of personification?
the process of changing something to improve it
What is revision?
Breakfast
What is the most important meal of the day? Make sure your engine is fueled on test day.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
What is the first day of the spring semester?
Imagery
What is a type of descriptive language that connects to the five senses?
She was so angry that her head exploded.
What is an example of hyperbole?
What is to depict?
T Chart
What is a type of brainstorming/prewriting you can do for the persuasive essay?
25%
What is the percentage that the final exam counts for your semester grade?
Conflict
What is a problem? Can be external - outside or internal - inside.
"...he hurried to catch up, stumbling once, scraping his knee, groping as though blind; his boot sank into the thick paddy water, and he smelled it all around him."
What is an example of imagery?
to represent a quality or feeling using an object, picture etc.
What is to symbolize?
Annotate the prompt, brainstorm, write an outline
What are the ways you can be prewrite for the persuasive essay?
NG
What is No Grade?