Drama Drama Drama
What is a hint about something about to happen in a literary text?
What is foreshadowing?
Identify the figurative language: She was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
What is the author's attitude in the text?
What is tone?
What is the text structure that uses the signal words on the other hand and both?
What is compare/contrast?
What is positive?
When 2 characters in a play have a conversation, this is called___________.
What is dialogue?
Identify if this is an objective or subjective statement?
Ms. Dax teaches seventh grade ELA.
What is objective?
A type of message that is not direct...you have to make an inference.
What is implicit?
What text structure?
Linux and Windows are both operating systems. Computers use them to run programs. Linux is totally free and open source, so users can improve or otherwise modify the source code. Windows is proprietary, so it costs money to use and users are prohibited from altering the source code.
What is compare/contrast?
The way the reader feels about the text.
What is the mood?
What are acts of a play divided into?
What are scenes?
Identify the figurative language:
Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.
What is personification?
Name both instruments Karter plays.
What are the bassoon and baritone?
What text structure?
When you walk into my bedroom, there is a window facing you. To the right of that is a dresser and television. On the other side of the window is my bed. My room always smells like vanilla since I have a Glade plug in by my closet.
What is description?
What is the tone of this paragraph?
Trey looked out the window. The rain was still pouring down. He threw his baseball glove on the couch with a sigh. The thunder cracked and his phone dinged. Trey picked up the phone. It was a message from his cousin: The game is cancelled because of the weather. Trey didn't reply to the message. He threw the phone back on his bed and rubbed his temples. The rain pattered on the roof.
What is gloomy, melancholic, stressful?
Who is the author of a play?
What is a playwright?
Identify if this is an objective or subjective statement.
Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat meat.
What is subjective?
Setting: Where and when is the story taking place?
Mr. Holland walked up to the teller and handed her a paper slip.She punched a few figures into the computer and ran the slip through a machine. It printed some numbers on the back of the slip. She handed the slip back to him along with five $20 bills.Then she asked him, "Is there anything else that I can help you with today?"Mr. Holland grabbed the money off of the counter and tipped his hat to the woman, "Not today, thank you.
What is a bank during modern times?
There is a computer and banking equipment.
What is the text structure of the following paragraph:
Dinosaurs existed about 250 million years ago to 65 million years ago. This era is broken up into three periods known as the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The Triassic Period lasted for 35 million years from 250-205 million years ago. Planet Earth was a very different place back then. All the continents were united to form one huge land mass known as Pangaea. The Jurassic Period was the second phase. The continents began shifting apart. The time scale for this famous period is from 205 to 138 million years ago. The Cretaceous Period was the last period of the dinosaurs. It spanned a time from 138 million to about 65 million years ago. In this period the continents fully separated. However, Australia and Antarctica were still united.
What is chronological?
Is this a positive or negative tone? PROVIDE TWO WORDS AS TEXT EVIDENCE.
I shivered as I watched the bitter wind whip through the grey, sickly trees outside.
What is negative?
shivered; bitter; grey; sickly; whip
What are stage directions?
Identify the text structure of the following paragraph?
Dr. Miller doesn’t want the tigers to vanish. These majestic beasts are disappearing at an alarming rate. Dr. Miller thinks that we should write to our congress people. If we let them know that we demand the preservation of this species, maybe we can make a difference. Dr. Miller also thinks that we should donate to Save the Tigers. Our donations will help to support and empower those who are fighting the hardest to preserve the tigers. We owe it to our grandchildren to do something.
What is problem/solution?
Identify the point of view of the following paragraph:
Red looked across the prairie. He didn't see anything concerning. He wondered why Texas Joe had hollered like that. Texas Joe turned to him. The ghost that Texas Joe had just seen was gone. Texas Joe swatted at the air. Now he felt crazy. "You have to believe me, Red. It was just here,"said Texas Joe.Red scowled at him in disbelief. "What was just here, Joe?" he asked. Red was angry with Texas Joe for disturbing his sleep for no apparent reason.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
Name FIVE text structures.
What is problem/solution, sequential or chronological, description, cause/effect, and compare/contrast.
Identify the tone of this paragraph.
We thought the game was over. The buzzer rang and we thought that we had lost, but then the referee blew the whistle. A foul was called and now Derrick had a chance to win the game for us. He stepped up to the free-throw line. The stadium, though filled with people, was completely silent. Everyone was still. Derrick dribbled the ball a couple times. He squared up on the line. Sweat beaded on his forehead. All eyes were on Derrick.
What is tense, dramatic, uneasy?