Thinking Words
To intentionally embed meaning.
What is to encode?
The author of "Some Keep the Sabbath..."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
A direct comparison, used in specific moments of a story to convey a similarity between two things
What is a "metaphor"?
A piece of punctuation that joins two closely related independent clauses often with an adverbial conjunction.
What is a "semicolon"?
The 16th President of the United States.
Who is "Abraham Lincoln"?
The dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
The author of "Summer Day."
Who is Mary Oliver?
A short retelling of the main points of the story. It focuses on the who, what, where, when, and how—the basic events without going into much detail.
What is "summary"?
If, because, when, after...
What are "subordinate conjunctions"?
My twin brother's name.
What is "Scott"?
To hint or suggest.
What is to imply?
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
What is "Ozymandias"?
An object that represents an idea.
What is a "symbol"?
I like ice cream, I can't eat it.
What is a "comma splice"?
The kind of dog that bit my face off.
What is an "akita"?
To interpret larger ideas
What is to infer?
When the others went swimming my son said he was going in too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower, and wrung them out.
What is "Once More to the Lake."
When you dig deeper into the poem to explore its themes, meaning, and message, offering interpretation.
What is "analysis"?
The missing word: and or but nor so yet
What is "for"?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is "Mercury"?
The ability to draw conclusions and make predictions based on evidence and reasoning, rather than just what is directly stated.
What is inferential thinking?
I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.
What is "The Meadow Mouse"?
The big idea or message the author wants to share through the story. It’s what the story is really about on a deeper level.
What is a "theme"?
The noun a pronoun replaces.
What is the "antecedent"?
What is "fewer"?