Inference
What two things are necessary to make an inference?
Background knowledge & clues from the text
What is theme?
The message or lesson the author wants you to take away from the story.
What do you call a series of lines in poetry?
A stanza.
Boom!
Onomatopoeia
What is the main problem or struggle in a work of literature?
The conflict.
“Do you think Buck was lonely at home all alone?” I asked Dad. “I don’t think so,” Dad replied as he pulled the car into the driveway. “He needs to get used to being in the house alone anyway, and we’ve only been gone for an hour.” Dad unlocked the front door and opened it for me. Buck ran up and greeted me with his tail wagging as I noticed that the couch was virtually destroyed.
What inference can you make?
Buck is a dog (likely a puppy) who got scared when left home alone and chewed up the couch.
What does not belong in a theme statement?
Names or anything specific- because it must be able to be universally applied.
True or False
Punctuation can be used as a poetic element to convey the writer's feelings.
True
Emily Dickinson’s use of capitalization, gives importance to a simple word like “nobody.”
The leaves danced in the wind.
personification
What is the final outcome of the story’s conflict called?
The resolution.
Today feels like the hottest day of the year! Mom is pestering me about being ready to leave, but all I want to do is curl up on the couch with the air conditioner blowing right on me. Instead, I throw my cleats into my duffle bag and head downstairs.
Make an inference.
It is summer. The boy (or girl) doesn’t feel like going to practice (maybe football) but agrees to go anyway. Mom is driving him to practice.
Which of the following IS NOT a theme...
Be careful what you wish for.
Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.
Being a teenager in Ohio is exhausting.
Being a teenager in Ohio is exhausting.
What do you call the pattern formed by the rhyming words at the ends of lines in a poem?
Rhyme scheme.
The students were driving me crazy!
Hyperbole
What is a writer doing when they hint at upcoming events?
Foreshadowing.
Ben is auditioning for a part in the school play. He's been fine all day, but right before the audition he says he feels sick. You might infer that Ben __________.
...is nervous.
True or False
A literary work may have more than one theme.
This is true.
What is the attitude or mood the author creates in a poem?
Tone
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Idiom
What should be included in a summary?
Only the most important events, including the main idea.
Which sentence below makes us infer that Bryan's pet is a cat?
True or false
In short stories, novels, and dramas, the theme is revealed through elements such as character, setting, and plot, or what the characters do and say, and how this affects the events.
True
What is the rhyme scheme in the following stanza?
If you go out when it's snowing
And look up at the sky,
You'll feel lots if icy kisses
As the snowflakes flutter by.
ABCB
He was like the Little Engine that Could!
Allusion
What do you call the first event in which the conflict becomes apparent?
The inciting incident.