Personal Narratives
What are the THREE things that make an essay a personal narrative?
What is an event experienced by the narrator, written in first person, and must be non-fiction.
What is the narrator's main idea in the first paragraph of "A Good Lie"?
What is Lying isn't okay, but some lies are okay because they're good lies.
Explain cause and effect
What is the effect is what occurs after the cause.
List 3 sensory details from How to Eat a Guava
What is feeling, sight, and taste
Which is a first hand account?; Introduction to Polio or The Diagnosis
What is The Diagnosis
What are sensory details in a personal narrative?
What evidence supports the main idea of "A Good Lie"
What is Some lies are made out of kindness.
Who was this story about?
What is Condoleeza Rice
Is the narrator in How to Eat a Guava experienced in eating guavas?
Which is a second hand account?; Introduction to Polio or The Diagnosis
What is Introduction to Polio
Why does the narrator of a personal narrative often times know how the main character feels?
What is the narrator is typically also the main character in the story.
In "A Good Lie" what character trait would you use to describe Lily? Why?
Lily was brave, kind, a good friend, sweet, etc.
How did the main character get her name?
What is her mother wanted her to have a unique and musical name.
The first Guava reminds the narrator of
Puerto Rico
What character trait would you use to describe the first nurse in "An Oxygen Tent and a Milkshake? How do you know?
What is the nurse was strict
What is an example of a simile?
What is a comparison using words, "like" or "as"
What did the parents do after they were notified of the bed being wet?
What is they changed the sheets instead of getting mad.
What was the father hoping for?
What is a boy
What is the setting of this story?
What is New York and the Shop & Save
How did the second nurse in "An Oxygen Tent and a Milkshake" change? Why?
What is an example of a metaphor?
A comparison without using the words, "like" or "as"
Who was known as the meanest girl in the class?
What is Sandy
Was the father present for the birth?
What is No, he was preaching in the pulpit at church
How does a green guava taste?
What is sour and hard
What are the ways you can identify character traits when you are reading?
What is The character's actions, Dialogue, and The narrator tells you