Print and Graphic Features
Plot, Characters, Conflict and Pacing
Figurative Language and Tone
Narrative Point of View
Word Study
100

Describe the difference between print and graphic features.

What is print features are mainly made up of words and graphic features are mainly visual?

100

In adventure stories, these are the two most common conflicts.

What is person vs. person and person vs. nature?

100

Tone is an author's attitude toward their subject and audience. A tone can often be described using an adjective. Name 3 adjectives that could be used to describe a tone of a story.

What is humorous, serious, optimistic, or gloomy?

100

List three first-person pronouns and three third-person pronouns.

What is first-person (I, me, mine) and third-person (he, she, his, her, they, them)?

100

This Anglo-Saxon suffix means “the condition, state, or quality of being.”

What is "-ness"?

200

Refer to passage 1. Identify 3 print or graphic features used in the passage.

What is subheads, sidebar, and captions?

200

Pacing refers to the speed in which a story unfolds. Define slow pacing vs. fast pacing in a story.

What is slow pacing is when an author is giving lots of detail and descriptions and fast pacing is when there is a lot of action happening in the story?

200

Name the similarity and difference between a simile and a metaphor.

What is they are both a comparison but a simile uses "like" or "as" and a metaphor does not?

200

This word means that the narrator is "all knowing" in a text.

What is omniscient?

200

Define the Latin root -pend- and give two related words.

What is "to hang" and pendant/depend/appendage?

300

Define the following print and graphic features; subheads, captions, sidebar and timelines.

What is...

subheads: groups of words that identify specific sections in a text.

captions: text that appears with a photo.

sidebar: mini-article that are set off from the main text and provide information on a related topic.

timelines: dates and basic information about key events set in a line to show chronological order?

300

Refer to passage 2. Explain how Mia seeing a student from the robotics table wave at her affects the plot.

What is it helps her make a decision and move the story forward?

300

Name what is being personified in the following sentence. "The wind howled through the trees, shaking their branches as if warning the world of the storm to come."

What is "The wind is howling and warning."?

300

This narrator, who speaks in the third person (using the pronouns he, she, his, her, they, them ), reveals only what the story’s main character experiences, thinks, and feels.

What is third-person limited?

300

Read the following sentence and use context clues to determine what the word condition means. "When he was a child, he was smaller than other kids and had a medical condition that made it hard for him to grow."

What is an illness or other medical problem?

400

Refer to passage 1. The subhead above paragraph 2, “Early Life”, is included to help the readers locate information about Messi’s…

What is talents as a young player?

400

Refer to passage 2. Identify the main conflict Mia faces in the passage.

What is she is trying to decide which club to join?

400

Identify the tone that is created by the description of the wind in the following sentence. "The wind howled through the trees, shaking their branches as if warning the world of the storm to come."

What is a warning or ominous tone?

400

Identify the point of view in the following sentence. “They both knew the test was coming, but neither of them had studied enough.”

What is third-person omniscient?

400

An analogy is a word relationship that makes a comparison between two words that are alike in some way. Write an example of an analogy.

What is Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food. It’s similar to how a chef follows a recipe to create a meal?

500

Refer to passage 1. Make a prediction about the article based on the subheads.

What is the article starts with Messi’s youth and ends with his adult accomplishments?

500

Refer to passage 2. Describe how the author shows the story is moving forward.

What is by showing Mia taking action after a moment of thought?

500

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence and the tone it creates. "The morning sun stretched its golden fingers across the meadow, waking the flowers from their sleep. The breeze, a playful dancer, skipped through the trees, scattering petals like confetti."

What is personification/metaphor and it creates a happy, "spring-like" tone?

500

Identify one benefit and one disadvantage to using a third-person limited narrator in a story.

What is one benefit is that the reader feels involved with the story and one disadvantage is that the reader only gets the thoughts and feelings of one character?

500

Identify the conjunctive adverb in the following sentences and add the correct punctuation. "Engineers design new materials to improve the efficiency of solar panels. Meanwhile architects create sustainable building designs to reduce energy consumption."

What is "Meanwhile,"?

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