Context Clues
In the sentence "It was his daily ritual to rise early"
What does the word "ritual" mean?
What is an established routine
How is Scrooge characterized at the beginning of the story "A Christmas Carol"?
What is greedy and uncaring?
A boy is standing in line at the store with his mother. While looking at the other people around him, he sees a man take some candy bars off a shelf and put them in his coat pocket. The boy looks at his mother, but she doesn't seem to have noticed what happened. The boy is not sure whether he should or should not tell his mother about the man stealing the candy bars.
What type of conflict is this?
what is person vs. self?
I didn’t know if the city would welcome him.
What is personification?
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem is
What is a stanza?
In the the sentence
"One day, as John sat in his hut, pondering over his day's work, he heard a strange sound in the distance."
What does the word pondering mean?
What is thinking about something
What type of character is "Voldemort" in the Harry Potter Series?
What is an Antagonist?
A girls two best friends are fighting. She sees both sides of the argument. She does not know how to explain to them that they both have good points. She is trying to figure out how to bring this up to them without making them mad at her.
what type of conflict is this?
What is person vs. self?
Fading memories are footprints in the sand.
What is Metaphor?
the atmosphere or feeling created for the reader
what is the mood?
In the the sentence
"This morning I awoke to the bitter cold wind howling outside my bedroom window."
What does the word bitter mean?
What is hostile?
Who is the protagonist of the story "Hatchet"?
Who is Brian?
Jan moves from Alabama into a tall building in San Francisco. She is very happy with her new penthouse apartment until a small earthquake happens. Now she is looking for an apartment on the first floor?
What is person vs. nature?
The room fell into a deafening silence after the announcement.
What is an oxymoron?
A musical quality produced by the stressed and unstressed syllables is called
what is rhythm?
In the the sentence
"I thought it was strange that the drama teacher would choose my sister to be in the play; however, I told her I would help her after school."
What connotation does the word stange have?
What is shocking/negative?
How would you characterize the pilot in "Hatchet"?
What is kind and quiet?
Sally cannot sit still for long periods of time. She always has break detention because her teacher says that tapping her foot is a distraction. Sally does not agree with this rule.
What type of conflict is this?
What is person vs. society
I’ve got to get up early tomorrow, so I’d better hit the hay.
What is an idiom?
the over reaching message
what is theme?
In the the sentence
"Then over the bald, featureless mountains the glacier began to crawl, covering the summit to the base."
What does the word bald mean?
What is blank or empty?
Since the step mother in "Cinderella" does not change as a character throughout the story. What character type is she?
What is static?
Scooby Doo and shaggy are tired of investigating scary haunted houses. They go to the rest of the gang and ask to take a case that doesn't have to do with ghosts or monsters. The gang votes on the next and decides that they are going to search the haunted lake for a missing jewel.
What type of conflict is this?
What is Person vs. Person?
The movie was a pretty ugly depiction of reality.
What is an oxymoron?
The authors feelings toward the subject
What is tone?