Grammar 1
This is a common noun.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
These are a person's exact words.
What are direct quotations?
This names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
Educated guesses about a character based on how they think, act, or speak.
What are inferences?
These are ways to adjust your reading rate.
1. To look over a text quickly.
2. To learn what the central idea is.
3. Run your eyes over the text to find answers to questions.
What are:
1. skim
2. read closely
3. scan?
This is a possessive noun.
What is a noun that shows ownership?
This is a symbol.
An object, person, animal, place, or situation that represents something else.
Ex: a dove.
This pronoun shows ownership or possession.
What is a possessive pronoun?
This is the most important point of a text.
What is the central/ main idea?
When the narrator is a character who participates in action and uses I and me to refer to themselves.
What is first person point of view?
This type of pronoun takes the place of a noun or several nouns named elsewhere in a text, referring to a specific person or thing.
What is a personal pronoun?
These are weighted words.
What are words that have a strong emotional association beyond their basic meaning?
This is a clause.
There are two kinds.
What is a group of words with a subject and a verb?
What are independent and dependent (subordinate)?
How a character views events based on their experiences or emotions.
What is a character's perspective.
These are three things that can affect an image.
What are composition, light and shadow, and perspective?
Two or more words that modify the same noun but are not separated by a comma.
Ex: She wore a light blue sweater.
What are cumulative adjectives?
A pattern of strong and weak beats in spoken or written language.
What is rhythm?
This connects a less important clause with a more important clause.
Ex: after, although, as if, since, in order that, until, whenever, why
What is a subordinating conjunction?
What is a repeated use of any element of language that poets use to emphasize ideas and create musical effects?
This is third person point of view.
What is the narrator not being a character and using he or she to refer to characters?
This is a coordinating conjunction.
Ex: and, but, for, nor, so, or ,yet
What is a word that connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal importance?
Language that appeals to one or more of your 5 senses. Makes your writing more interesting to read. Show vs tell.
What is sensory language?
Two or more adjectives that modify the same noun and are separated by a comma.
Ex: They became lifelong, devoted friends.
What are coordinate adjectives?
These are character's motives.
What are emotions or goals that drive them to act in a certain way.
Process writers use to develop their descriptions of people. (3 answers)
2 types:
1. Writer directly describes person
2. Writer reveals things about character through their thoughts, words, actions
What is characterization?
1. direct
2. indirect