Vocabulary
A person who favors the removal of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment such as slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
A way of expressing something in writing or speech that is developed using various techniques
What is style?
"She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear." Is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
An individual in a literary work whose thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions move the action of the plot forward
What is character?
A conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
A widespread disease that kills a lot of people
What is a plague?
A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else vs. giving a brief statement of the main points of something
What is paraphrase vs. summarize?
This type of descriptive language appeals to your five senses
What is imagery?
The main character—the one the story revolves around and who usually has a problem to solve vs. the character whose goals work against them
What is protagonist vs. antagonist?
The five sequence of events that take place in a literary work, commonly stories
What is plot structure: Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion?
reasoning and understanding, especially with regard to abstract or academic matters. For example: he was a man of action rather than of intellect.
What is whit (smarts, intelligence)
Something that is not plainly expressed vs. something that is stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt
What is implicit vs. explicit?
“If woman have a pint and a man a quart—why can’t she have her little pint full?" This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a metaphor?
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition. Often the idea that recurs in a work of art or literature which teaches the audience the moral of the story
What is theme?
The rules when writing dialogue or elements that must be included
What is: Quotation marks, correct punctuation, and a speaker tag?
The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
What is resilience?
A spoken or written account of connected events or a story which may be fictional vs. a text that educates the reader about a specific topic. It's often non fictional.
What is a narrative text vs. informational text?
A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. i.e Firehouse catching on fire
What is irony?
The author’s, speaker’s, or narrator’s attitude toward a subject, evident through diction and other style elements
What is tone?
To estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between something
What is compare and contrast?
To make someone legally or morally bound to an action or course of action
What is oblige?
This is type of writing in the form of an argument about the work that expresses a writer's personal perspective, interpretation, judgment, or critical evaluation of the work.
What is a literary analysis?
"Spare the rod and spoil the child, as the Good Book says."Is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an allusion?
The narrator's position in relation to a story being told. What are the different types?
What is point of view: 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited and omniscient?
a type of discourse; a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
What is argumentative writing?