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Parts of a Story
Literary/Poetic Devices
Examples of Devices
Formal Writing
Reading Strategies
100
The main character and person/thing who create the conflict
What is protagonist and antagonist
100
A comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as
What is simile
100
Why are you dancing around the subject?
What is metaphor.
100
Number of sentences in a formal body paragraph
What is 7-12
100
Inference
What is an educated guess
200
Story's lesson or moral
What is theme
200
Giving human characteristics to non-human (inanimate) objects
What is personification
200
The moon smiled down on me.
What is personification.
200
2 parts of a topic sentence
What is the "what" and the "why"
200
3 types of connections
What is text to self, text to text, and text to world
300
The events of a story are known as the story's what?
What is plot
300
Descriptive language used to paint pictures in the reader's mind; language that uses the 5 senses
What is imagery.
300
BOOM BOOM POW
What is onomatopoeia.
300
Main point of the overall essay
What is the thesis statement.
300
Before reading activity
What is look at title and text features, and make inferences.
400
Initial incident is different from exposition
What is exposition is background information given at the beginning, while the initial incident is the first point of action.
400
Tone, diction, connotation
What is author's attitude toward topic, word choice, emotional associations surrounding words --> used to show tone
400
" 'Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter and my daddy said to stay away from Juliet"
What is allusion
400
Order of introduction paragraph
What is hook, follow-up, overview, thesis.
400
During reading activities
What is mark key words/phrases, make connections, give opinions, label devices, ask questions, make inferences, etc.
500
Difference between direct and indirect characterization
What is "telling" vs. "showing" the personality of a character
500
A reference to something or someone from history or pop culture that the author expects the reader to recognize
What is allusion
500
Chris went over the cracked cobbles carefully
What is alliteration
500
What goes in an MLA heading
What is full name, class name, teacher name, assignment name, date
500
After reading activity
What is summarize, give author's opinion, give author's purpose, mark supporting details, other activities given by the teacher