Throwback: Short Stories
This is the moral or message from a story.
What is theme?
This is the controlling idea of an argument.
What is a claim? (or what is a thesis?)
What is bad?
All complete English sentences will have these two things.
What is a subject and a verb?
This is the Harrison team name.
Who are the Hoyas?
This is where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is when you acknowledge the other side of an argument.
What is the counterclaim?
Meaning of the prefix endo-
What is within?
Some sentences will have this, which comes in a direct or an indirect type.
What is an object?
This is the name of Harrison's principal.
Who is Dr. Milton?
This is the author's emotional attitude shown in the story.
What is the tone?
This is when you say why the other side of an argument is wrong.
What is the rebuttal (or refutation)?
Meaning of the prefix dyna-
What is power/strength?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
In English, almost all of the time, the main parts of a sentence (verb, object, and subject) will go in this order.
This is the university that gives Harrison our team name and mascot.
What is Georgetown University?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the part of the plot where everything comes to a breaking point; the most exciting moment of a story.
When you cite evidence, you always put the page number and this in the parentheses.
What is the author's last name?
Meaning of the root word phil
What is love?
This is the term for a verb that is acting like an adjective.
What is a participal?
This is the name of the road that Harrison is located on.
What is Due West Rd.?
This is the type of characterization when the reader has to figure it out for themself.
What is indirect characterization?
This comes at the very end of your paper and says where you got your information from.
What is a Works Cited?
Meaning of the root word feder
What is trust?
This type of word is "whatever the cats can do to the boxes"
What is a preposition?
This is the year Harrison was founded.
What is 1991?