Genres/Plot
This genre is intended to be acted out
What is drama/a play?
In "Two Legs or One," this is Goha's character type
What is a trickster?
Something that a character in a story wants, or what drives them in a story.
What is a motivation/motive?
This part of punctuation can combine two thoughts, create suspense in a sentence, or indicate a pause.
What is a comma?
What is a moral?
In "The Camera Does Lie," for example, the author wanted to inform the reader how images can be manipulated, and things aren't always how they appear.
What is the author's purpose?
A type of educated guess based off of textual evidence
What is inferencing?
They hook up words, and phrases and clauses
What are conjunctions?
This is also known as the beginning, or set up
What is the exposition?
Thinking about plot structure, it's when Peter gets shot in "Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
The overall feeling in a piece that the reader receives. Author's word choice, the character's actions, etc, all add to it.
What is mood?
It's a grammar rule that states the verb or verbs in a sentence must match the number, person, and gender of the subject
What is subject/verb agreement?
This differs from text to text and even genre to genre. For "Rogue Wave," it was primarily to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
If Ms. Kauha mentions that "Two Legs or One" presents Goha as stubborn because he'll do anything to prove he's right, she's making one.
What is an inference?
The overall feeling of a piece as how the author intended.
What is tone?
He's the best boy
Who is Wishbone?
If Ms. Kauha states that Yeats wrote "The Wandering Song of Aengus" to be hopeful and whimsical, she is describing this aspect of the poem.
What is the tone?
For "Monsters are Due on Maple Street," Ms, Kauha argues it's "a disruption in routine can bring out the worst of people."
What's the theme?
It's the rhyme scheme of the poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you
What is ABCB?
We had a week of school off, and because of that everyone is tired today is this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?