Texts and Authors
A short story about a boy who doesn't want to pick four-leaf clovers with the Allans any longer.
What is "Popularity"?
A person, place, thing or idea
What is noun?
The statement that presents a writer's central idea. It is usually present at the end of the introduction and supported throughout the essay.
What is a Claim statement?
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is climax?
When you compare two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile?
A short story about a girl named Marta who learns she may not receive a special piece of clothing that she earned, unless her family can pay for it.
What is "The Scholarship Jacket"?
A word that combines words, phrases, or sentences.
What is a conjunction?
A group of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution?
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author of the poem, "The Road Not Taken."
Who is Robert Frost?
A word that modifies/describes a noun
What is an adjective?
The words spoken by characters in a story that are placed in quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
The tension or trouble in a narrative plot.
What is conflict?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
A short story about a boy named Martin who struggles to accept that his Sioux grandfather is not the same person he has bragged about to his friends.
What is "The Medicine Bag"?
A word that shows action, state of being, or links
What is a verb?
The universal message/lesson in a piece of literature.
What is theme?
Compares two things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
A short film about a boy with a special ability and his father who struggles to accept that his son is unique.
What is "Float"?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
These are both needed to support a claim when writing a response to a text-dependent question.
What is evidence and explanation/reasoning (also accepted)?
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification?