Genres
This genre is fictional and has Gods and Goddesses.
Myths
What is the main idea?
Central point or message an author wants to convey, often expressed in a single sentence and supported by details.
How you feel when reading a book.
Mood
Is a form of verbal irony that uses sassiness and pokes fun at someone. Ex: You fall while running. Oh you were made to be a track star.
Sarcasm
What figurative language is being used?
Metaphor
This genre is fictional and includes a plot: exposition, rising action, falling action, and resolution.
Short story
Three clues to help you identify the main idea
Pictures, title, and repeated words. Also beginning and end of the paragraph.
List two words that have a positive meaning in a text and would create a positive mood when reading.
Happy, glad, beautiful, lively, proud, etc
A type of verbal irony that makes something smaller than it actually is. EX: Why is mother earth so important? It's only a planet.
Understatement
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of what?
Alliteration
This genre is non-fiction and is when a person writes about themselves.
Autobiography
Persuade, inform, and entertain.
How can an author create the tone in a story?
Word choice (diction), text structure (problem/solution, compare/contrast), and figurative language.
What type of verbal irony makes something bigger than it actually is, and exaggerates it. EX: "I'm so cold I'm going to freeze to death!"
Overstatement
Create your own example of personification.
The leaves danced in the wind.
This genre includes talking animals and has a moral.
Fable
Definition of theme is?
A universal message or lesson implied by the text.
Example the theme in hunger game is: the dangers of unchecked power and the importance of rebellion.
The silence stretched between them, thick and suffocating, as the rain kept falling—endlessly, relentlessly, as if the world itself was grieving with her.
What tone is used above?
Sadness, restlessness, distress
Going to DisneyWorld.
Create an example of an understatement in verbal irony about the topic above.
Disney park is just a regular park like the one across my house. What's the big deal!
Create a hyperbole in your own words.
He is taller than a skyscraper.
This genre includes a larger than life hero in history who help out their community.
Legend
Where can you find the main idea in a text?
At the introduction or at the very end of the text (conclusion).
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Tone is the author's attitude towards the subject, conveyed through word choice and style, while mood is the overall feeling or atmosphere the piece evokes in the reader, often created through imagery and setting.
Waiting in a three hour line at DisneyLand. Create an overstatement about the above situation.
I waited an eternity.
50 years later ~ Spongebob
Provide the definition for an idiom an an example in your own words.
An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal meanings of the individual words, but must be learned as a whole. Examples include "spill the beans" (reveal a secret) and "break a leg" (good luck).