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
the abbreviation for author's purpose and what each letter stands for
What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
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
A change in tone from one stanza to another is called....
shift
200
a statement that can be proven true or false
What is a fact
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
Language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300
In a persuasive article, the author's main idea or argument is called...
claim
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 fiction passage summary will have what 3 components?
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400
Name at least two things an expository text might have that is different than a fiction 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. The speaker's "voice."
In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, the word gold SYMBOLIZES....
the loss of perfection / innocence
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."