Figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution, The American Revolution, The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution, World War I, Interwar Years, World War II, Cold War, Vietnam War
What is Chronological (sequential) Order?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
a struggle between a person or an outside force
What is external conflict
Most words in the English Language have derived from either ______ or ______ words.
What are Greek or Latin words?
You must first determine THIS before you can determine the central idea or theme.
What is the topic?
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
A type of structure that narrates an event/story with characters, setting, conflict, point of view, and plot
What is narrative text structure?
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
a sign or warning of whats going to happen next
What is foreshadowing
The ______ word is often the base of larger and/or more complex words.
What is the “root” word?
There is a common misconception that ______ and ______ are the same.
What are Central Idea and Theme?
The soft fur of the dog felt like silk against my skin and her black coloring glistened as it absorbed the sunlight, reflecting it back as a perfect, deep, dark mirror.
What is description?
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery
The irony of this word is that it contains a demonstration of its meaning...which means the word part before a word.
What is a prefix?
The central idea of a text is sometimes ________ stated.
What is Explicitly?
Type of text structure that provide explanations or reasons for phenomena
What is cause and effect?
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
Word meanings are determined from word parts. Word parts consist of a root word plus an affix. One type of affix is a prefix. The other is a _________.
What is a suffix?
Theme can be defined as a _______, _______ or _______ being conveyed in a story. Theme is oftentimes implied.
What are a life lesson, message or moral?
Last week we installed a kitty door so that our cat could come and go as she pleases. Unfortunately, we ran into a problem. Our cat was afraid to use the kitty door. We tried pushing her through, and that caused her to be even more afraid. The kitty door was dark, and she couldn’t see what was on the other side. The first step we took in solving this problem was taping the kitty door open. After a couple of days, she was confidently coming and going through the open door. However, when we removed the tape and closed the door, once again, she would not go through. They say you catch more bees with honey, so we decided to use food as bait. We would sit next to the kitty door with a can of wet food and click the top of the can. When kitty came through the closed door, we would open the can and feed her. It took five days of doing this to make her unafraid of using the kitty door. Now we have just one last problem; our kitty controls our lives!
What is problem/solution?
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
a comparison between two things: _______is to_______as_________is to___________
What is analogy
This word broken down into word parts is as follows: Not + physical difference between groups + practice of
What is “Anti-racism”?
Common Core Standard _______ assesses scholar ability to determine Central Idea in an informational text while Standard _______ assesses scholar ability to determine central idea and Theme in literature.
What are standards R.I. 8.2 and R.L. 8.2?
This figurative language device compares two or more things without using “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
Refers to how the information within a written text is organized
What is Text Structure?
There are _____ key elements of every story.
What is 5?
A word that means how literature is categorized based on literary conventions
In addition to determining the central idea and/or theme, Standard 8.2, both R.I. and R.L., require scholars to write one of these factual recounts of the text.
What is an Objective Summary?
A prefix that usually means against
What is counter?
What thinking jobs do we use to help us determine the most important parts of a non-fiction text?
What is "What is the author mainly teaching" and "What is the author's point of view?" (MT/APOV)
An author may use this figurative language device to make the setting of a story more vivid.
What is imagery?
Medicine has a history spanning many thousands of years and specialized establishments for treating the sick have also existed for eons. Despite the fact that function of hospitals have not changed much during the last century, technological and scientific progress has made possible treatment approaches that could not have been implemented a hundred years ago and made a large contribution to health care. The main differences between hospitals today and a century ago are improved surgical techniques, the safer use of anesthesia, and safer childbirth procedures.
What is compare and contrast?
Story Elements help to develop the theme of the story. The statement above is ______.
What is TRUE?
A word that describes a type of fictional narrative story usually written in prose; often shorter in length and focuses on one event, character, or incident
What is a Short Story?
A word that describes a type of story designed for humor or irony. Hint: Shakespeare wrote many of these.
What is a comedy?
What is the prefix in the word antifreeze?
What is anti?
What thinking jobs do we use to help us determine the most important parts of a fiction text?
What is CPST? (Character, problem, solution, theme)
Who are the characters?
What is the problem/conflict?
What is the solution?
What is the theme?
Oftentimes an author will use one item to represent a different item in a story. This is the use of which figurative language device?
What is symbolism?
Headaches can have several causes. Many people think that the major cause of headache is nervous tension, but there is strong evidence that suggests diet and environment as possible factors. Some people get headaches because they are dependent on caffeine. Other people may be allergic to salt, or they may have low blood sugar. Still other people are allergic to household chemicals including polishes, waxes, bug killers, and paint. If they can manage to avoid these substances, their headaches tend to go away. When a person has recurring headaches, it is worthwhile to look for the underlying cause, especially if the result of that search is freedom from pain.
What is cause and effect?
Elements of a story can be identified in an informational text.The statement above is _______.
What is FALSE?
A word that describes a type of literature written by someone about his or her own life
What is an Autobiography?
This is how the story ends and happens after the climax
What is the Resolution?
What is the prefix in the word "Century" and what does it mean?
What is "Cent" and it means 100.
What thinking jobs do we use to help us determine the most important parts of a poetry text?
What is "DM/LM"?
What is the Literal Meaning?
What is the Figurative (Deeper) Meaning?