It's Lit
Repeating identical beginning consonant sounds
alliteration
Main purpose is to tell a story
What is a narrative
Compares two things directly, without using the words “like” or “as”
What is a metaphor?
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
A literary genre based on fact
What is Non-fiction
The following statement is an example of what?
This is the beginning of the end.
What is a paradox?
Exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
Hyperbole
A type of writing designed to influence the reader’s thoughts in some way
What is Persuasive/argumentative
The emotion created by the author’s use of language or by a character’s words and actions
What is Tone?
Examples: Humorous/Ironic/Sentimental/etc.
Tell me the rhyme scheme of the following:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
A
A
B
B
The central character and the one with whom the reader often identifies
What is a Protagonist?
The number of written response on Day one of the EOC.
What is 2?
The first is the RACE response (7-10 sentences)
The Second is the Full Essay (argument or informative)
An author gives hints or clues as to what will happen in a story
Foreshadowing
An item that asks a question and requires a response constructed by the student, as opposed to selecting from options provided.
What is Constructed response
Worth 2 points on the EOC
When people say one thing but mean the opposite
What is Verbal Irony?
Rhymes that occur at the end of lines of poetry. This is the most common type of rhyme
What are End Rhymes?
The deeper message or central idea of a text. Or the meaning the reader takes away from the text.
What is Theme?
To identify theme, a reader might ask: Why did the author have this happen? What point of was the author trying to make? What greater significant might this event have?
Theme vs. Topic?: Topic focuses strictly on the content
the main name of rhymes that occur when words include similar, but not identical, sounds. They are also called near rhyme, half rhyme, or off rhyme. Examples are bone and moon or ill and shell.
What is Slant Rhyme?
Emily Dickinson is famous for this.
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Juxtaposition
Example: Even happy people are sad sometimes.
A specific type of extended response that elicits a longer, more detailed response
Extended writing response
Worth 4 points on EOC
May be literary or informational
Students will respond to a narrative prompt based on a passage read
When the reader knows something the character doesn’t
What is Dramatic Irony?
Consonance
What are Words that have similar consonant sounds, but different vowel sounds.
Ex: Chitter and chatter/ Pick and sack/ Spoiled and spilled
Groups of lines poetry is written in
What are Stanzas?
Free form and fixed form:
Fixed form: what most people consider typical poetry. Traditional verse and generally rhymes
Free form: follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length. It captures the rhythm of regular speech
The number of days of EOC testing are there for American Lit?
An implied or indirect reference to a person, place, or thing that is mythological, fictitious, historical, or real
Allusion
Examples: "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”
"Chocolate was her Achilles' heel." (This means that her weakness was her love of chocolate. Achilles is a character in Greek mythology who was thought to be invincible. His mother dipped him in magical water when he was a baby, and she held him by the heel. So his heel was the only part of him not protected by the magic).
Requires the student to produce an argument or develop an informative or expository response.
What is an Extended writing response?
As a part of this, students will first read two passages and then respond to three multiple choice questions and one constructed response
These items will help write extended response by focusing on the main ideas and key details in passages
The extended writing prompt requires students to cite evidence from the passage to support claims and conclusions in the essay.
Worth 7 points
When things happen that are in direct contrast to what we expect (or would like to happen)
What is Situational Irony?
Example:
Pilot has a fear of heights.
Fire station burns down.
A narrative poem, often of folk origin, intended to be sung
What is a ballad?
Form of writing that ridicules or scorns people, practices, or institutions in order to expose their failings.
What is Satire?
a. I believe the author uses a hopeful tone to convey her message. You can tell by...
b. The author conveys a hopeful message in her poem...
What is B. Avoid using the pronouns I, you, my . Also, don't say "I think" or "I believe" just state it.