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Point of View & Plot
Plot
Figurative Language
Inferences
Author's Purpose
100
Although my group really liked the movie Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, I personally thought the book was far better! Identify the point of view.
What is first person POV?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
100
I have a million things to do today!
What is hyperbole?
100
Sally gets home at 6:30 from tutorials and sees that the lights are off in their house. She knows that her mother usually gets off at 5:00, but her dad doesn't usually get home until about 7:30. What can Sally infer?
Her mother is not home yet.
100
Florida is a state in the southern United States. The capital is Tallahassee, and the state bird is the mockingbird. There are many beaches in Florida. Identify the author's purpose. Think P.I.E.
What is exposition/information?
200
Everyone in the testing room felt the crushing anxiety. One girl wondered whether she would perform well enough to receive the $100 reward from her parents. A boy across the room, feeling extremely nervous, tapped his pencil against the desk. Identify the point of view.
What is third person omniscient?
200
A struggle between opposing forces in fiction.
What is conflict?
200
Descriptive, vivid language that appeals to the five senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, & touching.
What is imagery?
200
The girl walked down the street with her head hanging down, her soccer shorts filthy with dirt and heavy grass stains. She had just lost her first soccer game. What detail from the text can tell you how the girl is feeling?
Her head is hanging down.
200
Come and get your very own Speedy Scooter! It will make you super fast and let you have tons of fun! You should definitely buy a brand new Speedy Scooter today! Identify the author's purpose. Think P.I.E.
What is persuasion?
300
The five elements of plot listed in order.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, & rising action?
300
Examples of this would be found in the following quotes: 1) "The forces of good triumph over the forces of evil." 2) "Beauty is found within."
What is an example of theme?
300
The geraniums in the garden, beaten and bruised by the sun's scorching rays, begged for water and shade.
What is personification?
300
Jake was all smiles when he went to see a football game with his dad. They had been looking forward to this game for months! But on the ride back home from the game, there was no trace of a smile on Jake's face. Based on the text, WHY is Jake upset?
He is probably upset because his team lost.
300
Once upon a time, there lived a princess in a faraway land. One day, she was captured by an evil witch! Soon Prince Charming rushed to save her and make her a queen. Identify the author's purpose. Think P.I.E.
What is entertainment?
400
When the main character(s) realizes or learns something important that changes everything.
What is the climax?
400
Adam struggles with how to go about asking a girl out for the first time. This is what type of conflict?
What is internal conflict?
400
On July 4th, fireworks are vibrant, shining reminders of the wars fought and won for our independence.
What is a metaphor?
400
AJ is in a hurry to get home to watch football. He drives well over the speed limit when, suddenly, he hears a siren and sees flashing lights, "No! Please not now!" he thinks. What is happening? How do you know?
AJ is being pulled over for speeding.
400
"On Monday in Columbus, Ohio, Clinton presented her achievements by decade and compared those moments with points in Trump's life." Identify the author's purpose. Think P.I.E. Quote from Dan Merica and MJ Lee, CNN.com
What is exposition/information?
500
Sitting in the backseat, Logan tried his best to ignore the bickering in the front seat between his mother and his big sister. "They always fight!" Logan thought. He was exhausted listening to the argument, so he placed his Beats over his ears and tuned them out. Identify the point of view.
What is third person limited?
500
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader at various time through a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
500
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY* Like jittery jumping jelly beans, the tiny kindergarteners bounced all over the playground during recess.
What is alliteration? What is a simile?
500
Butterflies filled my stomach. My hands felt shaky. I took a deep breath. I could see the waiting crowd through a crack between the curtain and the wall. What do you think this narrator is about to do?
Perform in front of a crowd.
500
"It's time Americans pay as much attention to their actual wars as we do to the movies made about them." Identify the author's purpose. Think P.I.E. Quote by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, CNN.com
What is persuasion?