Grammar
Includes a subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
What is a complete sentence.
When the audience is introduced to a story's characters, setting, and potential conflict
What is exposition?
What is character development?
Not taking something at face value; considering an idea deeply before accepting it as true.
What is critical thinking?
Understanding something or someone more deeply after consideration or discussion.
What is insight?
An optional form of punctuation that formats a list
What is the Oxford comma?
When the audience is formally introduced to a text's main conflict.
What is rising action?
What theme helps the reader connect literature to
What is real life?
When a word, concept, or symbol is present within a text multiple times.
What is repetition?
Someone changing their minds about going to a party because the people there will be doing things that don't align with their values.
What is conviction?
When a comma is used to combine two independent clauses/complete sentences
What is a comma splice?
When Finn finally opens his eyes and makes it out of the Hall of Egress to Jake
What is falling action?
Something a theme cannot be
What is one word?
The way that an author says something that affects the story's "feel."
What is tone?
Looking inward to understand yourself more.
What is introspection?
A short word that can be added to a sentence to correct a comma splice
What is a coordinating conjunction/fanboy?
When a significant turning point typically takes place in a story
What is the climax?
A label for a type of story with particular traits that influences the themes the story may have.
What is genre?
An object in a story that represents one of the story's recurring ideas.
What is a symbol?
To degrade or belittle.
What is spurn?
Can be used to combine two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
When loose ends are tied up. Also when Finn and Jake hugged, and Finn decided to keep the details of his journey to himself.
What is resolution?
The very first words of a text that can give us a clue as to what its themes could be.
What is a title?
Someone's personal, subjective understanding of a text.
What is interpretation?
Instead of firing you, your manager slowly starts reducing your hours and giving you less tasks.
What is skirting?