Word Study
A ____ sentence has a single independent clause.
What is simple?
The message or insight about life that the author expresses is the ___.
What is theme?
Identify the type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification) that is used in the following sentence.
The wind howled, and the bending trees complained all night.
What is personification?
The 3 most common types of organizational Patterns are...
What is compare and contrast, cause and effect, and chronological order?
Refer to passage 1. Then explain why the narrator describes the Great Plains and its past.
What is he thinks its history is interesting and worth remembering?
A _____ sentence has two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is compound?
In works of fiction, themes are usually not stated directly by the author. Instead they are _______.
What is implied or suggested?
Identify the type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification) that is used in the following sentence.
Kari’s laugh was like thunder.
What is simile?
Name the 4 types of details authors use to develop the main idea.
What is fact, example, anecdote, and statistic?
Refer to passage 1. Identify the narrator’s point of view about the Great Plains?
What is he feels its history and beauty should not be forgotten?
Identify if the italicized pronoun is reflexive or intensive in the sentence:
The neighbors themselves brought over a pie for me.
What is intensive?
Name one step to help you find an implied theme.
What is 1. consider the title, 2. ask ‘what message about life is the author trying to express?, or 3. use details from the text.
Identify the type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification) that is used in the following sentence AND explain what is means.
Juan is a magician in the kitchen.
What is a metaphor and it suggests that he can create delicious food in a way that impresses people, as if he has special powers?
Identify which organizational pattern would work best for this topic.
Explaining events leading up to the Civil War.
What is chronological order?
Refer to passage 1. Identify the author’s purpose for writing this passage.
What is the author’s purpose is to share memories of the Great Plains and explain why its history is important?
Read the sentence: Be patient with small children who are learning new things.
Using context cluse. What does the word patient mean?
What is wait willingly or calmly?
An ancient culture believes that gods sometimes take the form of humans. In a story from this culture, a man is rude to and does not help a poor stranger who asks for a meal. Later on, bad things mysteriously happen to the rude man.
What theme would most likely to be expressed in the story?
What is be kind to those who are less fortunate?
Name two reasons authors use figurative language.
What is 1. to focus your attention on the things being compared, 2. to express an idea in a memorable way, 3. to get you to think about people or objects being compared in a new way, or 4. to create a specific mood using “word pictures”?
Identify the type of detail.
The last tie British miners brought canaries underground to warn them about poisonous air was in 1986.
What is fact?
Refer to passage 1. Identify the central idea of the passage.
What is the central idea is that the Great Plains have changed, but their history and spirit should still be remembered?
Read the sentence: The furniture designer has created a stable chair with only 3 legs.
Using context clues. Which does the word stable mean?
What is solid; not likely to fall?
An ancient culture believes that gods sometimes take the form of humans. In a story from this culture, a man is rude to and does not help a poor stranger who asks for a meal. Later on, bad things mysteriously happen to the rude man.
What cultural belief or value does the story most likely express?
What is the gods may take human form so humans should be generous or welcoming to strangers and the poor?
It was Cody’s first time hiking in a desert, and he had foolishly not packed enough water. To make matters worse, his out-of-date map got him lost. Now, as he followed a dry creek bed in a desperate search for water, the hot, dry desert wind mocked me.
The purpose or effect of the figurative language used in this passage is to...
What is to express an idea in a memorable way. In this case, Cody is learning the hard way not to hike in the desert unprepared?
Identify the organizational pattern that would work best for this topic and explain you thinking.
Explaining the differences between dog breeds.
What is compare and contrast because it explains how dog breeds are similar and different?
Name the 5 most common types of Author’s Purpose.
What is to describe, to inform, to entertain, to persuade, and to express feelings (narrate)?