Reading Fiction
Reading Informational
Vocabulary
Essay Writing
Figurative Language
100

Literary Elements:

Plot, Character, and Setting

100

The most important take away from a paragraph of an article or source is ___________________

Central or main idea


100
Common characters, situations, or settings that share traits or characteristics that show up repeatedly in literature.

Archetypes

100

The other side of an argument

Counterclaim

100

When an author spells out a sound.

Onomatopoeia 

200

Definition of Theme

A Universal topic plus the message the author wants to convey.

200

What do we call the organization of information in a text like: Description, Cause and Effect, and Chronological are examples.

Text Structure

200

Zeugma, Repetition, Irony and Rhetorical Questions are examples of these

Rhetorical devices

200
A writer uses these to connect ideas, evidence and paragraphs together

Transitions

200

When an author utilizes language that appeals to the 5 senses

Imagery


300

Name 4 Archetypes or situations

Hero, Villain, Caretaker, Lover, Rebel, Sage, Everyman, etc.

The River, The cave, The forest, An island, Life and Death

300

In informational texts there are three authors purposes. What are they?

To persuade, inform, or entertain
300

Ethos Pathos Logos are example  of ___________________

Rhetorical Appeals

300

What a writer uses to expand on the significance of their evidence. Usually found before or after the use of evidence.

Elaboration

300

When an author makes a reference to a commonly known source while making it into their own. 

Allusion


400

Name the ALL types of narration or all point of views an author can write from.

1st person

2nd person 

3rd person- limited, omniscient, objective


400

Graphs, Maps, Illustrations, Heading, footnotes and charts are examples of:

Text features

400

A word that is spelled the same with a different meaning is a 

Homonym

400

How many sentences does Mr. Scire believe most body paragraphs should be.

8-12

400

When an author uses extreme exaggeration to emphasize or abstract an event or description.

Hyperbole

500

Name 5 sources we read without opening the textbook book that were fictional.


Pre-Ap

Name 3 Sources in Third-person perspective from Unit 4.

The Graveyard Book, The Conjuring Man, Blind, Tom Sawyer, Across Five Aprils, Call of the Wild, The Lottery etc.


PRE-AP

All the Light we Cannot See, Fahrenheit 951, 1984, Out of my Mind. 

500

What can an author of an informational text use to emphasize their points through creative expression and abstractions that are not meant to be taking literally?

Figurative Language

500

Definition of Connotation and Denotation

tone or degree of a word and the dictionary definition.
500

The outline of the intro has three subsections: A,B,C.

What are A,B and C

Hook, Background of Topic, Claim/Thesis

500

When an author uses understatement to downplay the significance of something.

Meiosis