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Grammar
100
What is the time and place in which the story takes place?
Setting
100
What is a three line, Japanese poem called?
Haiku
100
What is mood?
How the reader feels after reading a story.
100
What does it mean to sequence events?
To put them in order
100
What is a proper noun?
Name specific people, places, things, ideas, concepts and are capitalized.
200
What is the entire sequence of events or outline of events that occur in the story?
Plot
200
What is the repetition of like-sounding words at the ends of lines?
Rhyme
200
What is theme?
The central message of a story.
200
Find the cause and the effect: I did not study for the AIMS test, therefore, I ended up getting a lower score than I normally would have.
Cause: Not studying Effect: Lower Grade
200
What are pronouns? Also, you must give one example.
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence. Examples: I, you, she, he, it, we, they, us, their, who, etc.
300
What is the way the story ends and everything goes back to normal?
Resolution
300
What is a group or division of lines in poetry?
Stanza
300
When the story is told from the main character's perspective, it is told in what view point?
1st person
300
If you do not understand a word or group of words while reading, what should you do?
Use context clues by looking at the words or sentences around it.
300
What is incorrect? Yesterday I went to the mall with my best friend Karen we bought shoes: clothes: and ice cream.
Need to add commas and replace the colons.
400
What is the author's view/feeling of the characters and events?
Tone
400
What is a long poem that tells a story?
Narrative Poem
400
What conflict are you experiencing if you had a fight with your best friend?
External or Person vs. Person
400
When you are taking the author's exact words and putting them into your own words, what is that called?
Paraphrasing
400
What is it called when two negative words express one negative idea?
Double negative. EX: I can't hardly wait for summer vacation.
500
What is the point in the story when the characters try to solve the main problem, turning point or high point?
Climax
500
A Sonnet includes a very specific outline, what are the three requirements that make a poem a "Sonnet"? You all three for the answer to be correct.
14 lines, ABAB Rhyme Scheme and Iambic Pentameter.
500
What are the four different types of conflict?
Person vs Person, Person vs. Self, Person vs. Nature and Person vs. Society
500
When you draw an _________, you are making an educated guess based on facts and details in a reading passage.
Inference
500
What is incorrect? When the teacher said, "We will now turn to page 103," we all laughed because we know what is on that page.
Shift in tense: "know" should be "knew"