the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false
What is opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language:
"John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200
these may include: to describe an experience, to reflect upon a lesson, to tell an amusing story, to provide information about a subject, to convince readers to agree, etc
What is an author's purpose?
200
the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?
Roses are red/
Violets are blue/
I need the answers to the test/
Can I get it from you?/
What is A, B, C, B.
200
a statement that can be proven true or false when research is done (two words)
What is a factual claim?
200
Identify the type of figurative language:
"Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."
What is an idiom?
300
the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
300
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300
a statement that is generally accepted to be true by MOST people (two words)
What is a commonplace assertion?
300
Identify the figurative language:
"The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400
how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is author's organization?
400
a summary must include this information from the story
but most definitely does NOT include these...
What is main idea and supporting details from BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
What is direct quotations, reader's opinions, details not included in the original work?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400
Name at least two types of text features you might encounter and need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?
400
Identify the figurative language:
"Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500
When reading a drama, you should pay careful attention to these instructions in the text of a play indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What is stage direction?
500
Name the four most common types of poetry and give one characteristic of each.
What is epic (a poem with a story line and follows the adventures of a hero; usually long and have rhythm and repetition), narrative (a poem that tells a story but is much shorter than an epic poem; usually follows the plot diagram), lyrical (a poem that expresses thoughts and emotions and contains rhyme and rhythm/meter), and free verse (a poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm).
500
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?
500
Identify the figurative language:
"Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."