Figurative Language
This type makes comparisons using like or as
What is a simile?
Definition of characterization
What is describing a character?
Steps to breakdown a question
What is circle and underline key terms/parts in the question?
The domains of writing are
What are descriptive, narrative, persuasive, and instructional writing?
Definition of conflict
What is a problem in the story?
This type gives human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The acronym for characterization
What is S.T.E.A.L.?
When you circle "how" in a question, it can also mean
What is "what ways"?
These two domains of writing are similar
What are narrative and descriptive writing?
Types of conflict are
What are internal and external conflicts?
Name the type of figurative language.
"I put my head down on the desk and bury my face in my stupid clown-sweater arms." (Eleven)
What is a metaphor?
S.T.E.A.L. stands for
What is Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, and Looks?
When you circle "why" in a question, this can also mean
Parts of a strong argument are
What are "include the title and the name of the author, answers EVERY part of the question, and specifically name the key elements"?
Identify the conflict,
"I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven." (Eleven)
What is an internal conflict?
IC: Rachel does not want to be eleven anymore.
Name the type of figurative language.
"Now, with the thought of the burger, the emptiness roared at him. He could not believe the hunger, had never felt it this way." (Hatchet)
What is personification?
Make the characterization note.
"Mr. Smith was passing out our first essay. I’d followed all of Mrs. Needham’s advice. I’d written it at the Flint Public Library and was very careful not to use the dictionary or the thesaurus too much. And I didn’t digress at all." (The Mighty Miss Malone)
What is Deza is a hard worker, is detailed about her school work? (Anything similar to this.)
Look at the prompt breakdown. What is missing?
How does the author’s use of figurative language help readers understand the explicit and implicit feelings that the narrator is expressing? Support your writing with evidence from the text.
What is "use of figurative language"?
Correct the sentence below:
marney, was upset ... she had to GET UP for School?
What is:
Marney was upset she had to get up for school.
An example of an external conflict
Any type of conflict that reflects man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society.
Write a simile
Correct if uses like or as to make a comparison between two things.
Write a sentence that characterizes something as raggedy.
Examples include an object described as old, worn, dirty, and poorly maintained.
Identify the thinking jobs.
Consider how Deza responds to the C+ she received on her essay, both internally and externally. Then imagine how she will approach the next assignment she receives from Mr. Smith. Use the information you learned about both characters, as well as Deza’s other interactions with characters in the text, to write a short scene that describes this event.
What are
"1. Identify how Deza responds to her C+ internally and externally
2. Write a short scene of how she will respond to the next assignment"? (Anything similar.)
Correct the sentence below:
although, he did not went to going to the party ... jerry was excitde to see ish friend?
What is
"Although he did not want to go to the party, Jerry was excited to see his friend." ?
An example of an internal conflict
Any example that includes a man vs. self conflict