Topic 1
This literature device applies to people across cultures, time periods, or comments o what it means to be human.
What is a universal theme?
This is how a writer creates and develops a character's personalities.
What is characterization?
1. Why are we obsessed with True Crime.
--->People feel like detectives.
--->What about our emotional health?
These last two are examples of...
What are subheadings or subtitles?
When you tell the writer's main ideas and leave out most of the details you...
What's summarize?
When you retell a text using different words but include both the main ideas and the details from the writer's work you...
What is paraphrase?
The title of a literary work, what a character says, interactions between characters and key events are...
What are clues to a story's theme?
These type of words appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is imagery?
This language is used to convey meaning differently.
What is figurative language?
Why is it important to paraphrase poems?
What is to understand better a text?
Active listening skills:
With this skill active listeners paraphrase and summarize what they heard.
What is it?
What is sharing?
Asking questions such as:
What details and other information are included?
What information is omitted?
How is information presented?
How does the particular treatment shape the message for the audience?
-are used to...
Active listening skills:
With this skill listeners put aside distractions so they can focus on the listening.
The name of this skills is...
What is focusing?
1 "The moon hung low, a silver coin,
2 Casting shadows like whispered secrets,
3 While trees danced softly in the night breeze,
4 Their leaves shivering with untold stories."
Which line gives evidence of imagery?
What's line 1?
1. “People have always been interested in true crime, but now that the genre is having a moment, public interest has soared.”
2. People have always liked true crime, but interest has soared in this time when the genre is having a moment.
Statement 2 is an example of...
What's a plagarized statement?
Active listening skills:
With this skill people jot down important information, memorable phrases, and questions.
What is it?
What is note taking?
It’s a speech in which a character expresses their thoughts aloud while alone on stage.
This device is called...
What is a soliloquy?
"Napoleon took them [the puppies] away from their mothers, saying that he would make them into dogs to be his guards. He taught them to be loyal to him alone and to be fierce to the other animals."
Which type of character is this an example of?
What is an antagonist?
Excerpt:
"Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife, comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
—Mercutio, Act 1, Scene 4
Which device does this excerpt give evidence of?
What is an allusion?
It’s a figure of speech that pairs two conflicting terms to create a strong effect. "O brawling love! O loving hate!"
This literary device is called...
What is an oxymoron?
Excerpt:
During Act 1, Scene 2, after King Claudius speaks about the recent death of his brother and his marriage to Gertrude, Hamlet delivers this:
"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
This is an example of...
What is an aside?
"As the war raged on outside, Maria sat at the window of the cramped apartment, her pencil poised above a blank page. She felt the weight of the world pressing down on her shoulders. With each passing day, her younger brother, Lucas, grew restless and scared. Maria often heard him whispering his fears late into the night. Determined to protect him, she decided to compose a series of stories that would take them both far from their reality. Every evening, she transformed their dark surroundings into magical worlds filled with heroes and adventures."
What is Maria's motivation?
What is to protect her younger brother, Lucas?
Excerpt:
Act 4, Scene 1
Setting: Friar Laurence’s cell where Juliet seeks help.
Juliet:
"O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower,
Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me run
Madly, forth in the streets,
And hurl myself upon the sword of Montague.
I’ll do it, or I will die."
Friar Laurence:
"If rather than to marry Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then it is likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to scape from it.
And, if thou dar'st, I’ll give thee remedy."
Which device does this excerpt give evidence of?
What is dramatic irony?
"The moon hung low, a silver coin,
Casting shadows like whispered secrets,
While trees danced softly in the night breeze,
Their leaves shivering with untold stories."
Which of the two statements is the correct paraphrased version?
1. "The moon was very high in the sky, glowing dimly like a regular coin. It made shadows that were obvious and direct. The trees stood still, unaffected by the wind, and their leaves were quiet and still without any stories."
2. "The moon was positioned low in the sky, shining brightly like a silver coin. It created shadows that felt intimate and mysterious. Meanwhile, the trees moved gently in the night wind, and their leaves trembled with hidden tales that have yet to be revealed."
What is number 2?
Excerpt:
Romeo:
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
This excerpt gives evidence of which type of character?
What is a tragic hero?
Tybalt:
"This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave
Come hither, cover’d with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?"
This excerpt gives evidence of which type of character?
What is a foil character?