Tell me a Tale
The narrator tells the story in ______ _______ point of view.
What is first person?
This key term describes how to highlight important parts of the text, ask questions, and make connections.
What is annotation?
The lottery is a _________ the town follows every year?
What is a tradition?
A hint in the text to help a reader infer the meaning of a text.
What is a context clue?
The district attorney called Steve Harmon this...
What is a monster?
The hearbeat represented this...
What is the narrators guilt?
Details from the text that a reader can use to support ideas and opinions about a text.
What is textual evidence?
The winner, Tessie, has on her paper...
What is a black dot?
The way an author looks at a topic or a subject.
What is the authors point of view?
A lawyer who works for the government.
What is a prosecutor?
In the Tell-Tale Heart, madness and paranoia are the _________ of the story.
What are themes?
A conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
The oldest living participant in the tradition.
Who is old man Warner?
A guess about what may happen next.
What is a prediction?
The main character, the one who usually has a problem to solve is called the ___________of the story.
What is the protagonist?
(1) He murders an old man because of his "vulture eye"; (2) He hears sounds from hell; (3) He dismembers the dead man's corpse; (4) He hears the beating of a dead man's heart; (5) He is paranoid; (6) He is "nervous–very, very dreadfully nervous." These are all examples of what?
What are a few examples that prove the narrator is mad?
The main idea or message of the story.
What is the theme?
Mr. Graves, Mr. Summers, and the rocks the children are collecting in the beginning of the story are examples of _________ in the text.
What are some examples of allusions?
A reference to a person, place, thing, or idea.
Ex. "He's a regular Einstein."
What is an allusion?
A formal statement that a person makes as a witness in court.
What is a testimony?
I'll let him tell you: "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this!" Is evidence that the narrator wants to _______ the old man.
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
A short answer to a question about a text that uses textual evidence.
What is a text dependent response?
A _________ is something the reader makes based on the setting, plot, and actions of the characters in the story.
Synonyms: a guess, foretelling the future
What is a prediction?
A ________ is a conclusion a reader makes based off of textual evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
The character whose goals work against the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
Who is King?