Poetry
The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward their subject, audience, or themself
This is when the story is told from the perspective of someone talking to "you." The narrator is directly speaking to the reader
What is Second Person Point of View?
A sentence that has only one independent clause
Simple sentence
Emotional atmosphere or feeling created in the reader.
What is Mood?
The author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Who is Mitch Albom?
Word Choice
What is diction?
The hidden moral, message, or idea that the author wants to convey throughout the text that the author does NOT explicitly state.
What is Theme?
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses (for, or, and, yet, nor, so, but)
What are coordinating conjunctions?
Literary genre where the story is set in a specific time period from the past.
What is Historical Fiction?
The name of the protagonist in the short story "All Summer in a Day" where children at school eagerly await the predicted appearance of the sun that occurs only once every seven years on Venus, a planet of seemingly endless rain.
William
Pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.The patterns are named by letters of the alphabet.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The author or narrator explicitly/directly TELLS the audience about the character's traits and qualities.
What is direct characterization?
A sentence that has two independent clauses connected by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
Uses text and pictures to present information and has the same format as comic books
What are graphic novels?
Debate that examines whether human behavior, personality, and intelligence are primarily shaped by genetic inheritance or environmental factors like upbringing and culture
What is the Nature vs. Nurture Debate?
Poetic technique where a sentence or phrase continues from one line of the poem to the next without any terminal punctuation (period, exclamation mark, question mark)
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Exposition
Identify what kind of clause is italicized:
The dog, who has brown fur and small ears, barks.
What is a relative clause?
Artistic and cultural explosion among African Americans living in Harlem in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The second person Eddie meets in heaven
The Captain
Identify the # of feet are in this line:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
5 Feet
Object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
What is a symbol?
Identify the sentence structure:
Though Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much
Compound-Complex Sentence
Your response to the counterclaim. It is where you refute or argue against the opposing viewpoint and show why your position is stronger.
What is turn-back or rebuttal?
In Dino Buzzati's short story, "The Falling Girl," what happens to Marta as she descends from the skyscraper?
Marta becomes older and fearful