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What are text features? Give 5 examples.
Text features are design elements that author's use to help guide readers through a text. titles/headings, sub-titles/sub-headings, visual aids (graphics, pictures, diagrams, tables, graphs), captions, sidebars, print variations (boldfaced words, italics, different font sizes or colors), bullited lists, numbered steps, etc.
100
What are the basic elements of a short story?
characters, setting, theme, exposition, initial conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
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What is main idea and how can you find it?
1. ask yourself "what's it about?", and "what's the author have to say about it?" 2. Check the first and last sentences. 3. Put it into powers 4. Highlight the details
100
Name 5 literary devices that are often used in poetry.
simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopeia, imagery, sound devices, personification, figurative language, hyperbole
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What are the 3 types of author's points of view? Why would an author choose one over the other? How does that choice effect the story?
1st person: sounds like I, me, we. The narrator is a character in the story, and it is told from their perspective. We learn the narrator's thoughts and feelings. 3rd person: sounds like he, she, they, him, her. The narrator is not a character in the story. However, the narrator will tell us the thoughts and feelings of one character. Omnicient: sounds like he, she, they, him, her. The narrator is not a character in the story, and knows the thoughts and feelings of more than one character
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What text features are common to scientific articles, text books, and newspapers?
All three should use titles. Scientific articles and textbooks are more likely to include subtitles and print variations. A newspaper uses some graphics, like photographs and diagrams, but the other too will include many more graphic aids, and more captions. Textbooks and scientific articles are also more likely to use sidebars to define words or highlight important information.
200
What are the 4 types of conflict? Give an example of each.
1. man v. self 2. man v. man 3. man v. nature 4. man v. society
200
What's the difference between biography, autobiography, and memoir, and how can you tell the difference?
Bio: written by someone other than the subject, 3rd person pov (sounds like he, she, his, her, they), presents facts. Autobio: written by the subject, 1st person pov (sounds like I, me, my, we), includes the subjects thoughts and feelings. Memoir: Piece of an autobiography, that includes only a short period of time or a few events. 1st person pov.
200
Analyze the following poem for both meaning and figurative language: I'm nobody! Who are you?/ Are you nobody, too?/ Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!/ They'd banish us, you know./ How dreary to be somebody!/ How public, like a frog/ To tell your name the livelong day/ To an admiring bog!
End rhyme, rhythm, simile The speaker is pleased about being unknown, and doesn't want "them" to discover her.
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What is the difference between author's tone, mood, and style? Analyze the passage for the above: "Claudia and Jamie awoke very early the next morning. It was still dark. Their stomachs felt like tubes of toothpaste that had been all squeezed out. Giant economy-sized tubes. They had to be out of bed and out of sight before the museum staff came on duty."
Mood is the feeling the author creates for the reader, tone is the author's attitude toward the subject. Mood is often revealed through setting (think movie soundtracks) or a characters feelings. Tone comes across through the author's choice of words (formal v informal, connotations) and details. Style is the way an author communicates ideas. It includes word choice, sentence structure, imagery, pov, etc.
300
How can you evaluate an informative piece for reliability?
1. Does the piece answer the 5 W's and H? 2. Is the source trustworthy? Can the details be verified? Are the sources named or unnamed? 3. Is more than one side of the issue presented? Does the author use biased language? 4. Are enough details presented?
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How does an author show u a character's personality?
thru characterization, the character's thoughts, words and action
300
What are the parts of a persuasive argument?
claim, support, opposing viewpoint, counterclaim,
300
What is the "misty veil" mentioned in line 2 of this poem? Is the moon tired? she looks so pale/ Within her misty veil:/ She scales the sky from east to west,/ And takes no rest./
Clouds
300
Compare and contrast the following passages for author's style: "When we were about half-way through, I suddenly put my hand upon her arm; for I heard in the silent, frosty air, a sound that brought my heart into my mouth..." "He got up and headed for the door. But he didn't open it. Instead he peeked through the window next to it. When he turned back, his eyes looked as big as the hard boiled eggs we had eaten for supper."
In passage 1, the author uses imagery (the silent, frosty air), and long complex sentences, as well as a semicolon to slow the reader. The language is more formal. Passage 2, however, uses much simpler language and shorter sentences. It sounds more like everyday conversation.
400
What is an inference? What inferences can be made about the speaker's daughter in the following poem? while my sixteen-year-old son sleeps, my twelve-year-old daughter stumbles into the bathroom at six a.m. plugs in the curling iron squeezes into faded jeaans curls her hair carefully strokes Aztec Blue shadow on her eyelids peers into the mirror, mirror on the wall frowns at her face, her eyes, her skin, not fair.
An inference is an educated guess based on both details/facts from the story and what you know from your personal experience. The speakers daughter doesn't like the way she looks, and thinks it's not fair.
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Find the theme of the following story: A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting."
Don't trust flattery.
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Find the main idea of the following passage: "You know there are many kinds of spiders, but did you know there are many kinds of spider webs? In fact, a spider web can be a big clue to the kind of spider that made it. When you know the differents kinds of webs that spiders commonly make, you can make a pretty accurate guess about the kind of spider that created it."
A spider web can be a big clue to the kind of spider that made it.
400
why is only the word "spring" capitalized in the following poem? who knows if the moon's/ a balloon, coming out of a keen city/ in the sky-filled with pretty people?/ (and if you and I should/ get into it, if they/ should take me and take you into their balloon,/ why then/ we'd go up higher with all the pretty people/ than houses and steeples and clouds:/ go sailing/ away and away sailing into a keen/ city which nobody's ever visited, where/ always/ it's/ Spring) and everyone's / in love and flowers pick themselves
Spring is probably capitalized because the author feels it is a joyful time of year, and therefore important
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What is author's perspective? Analyze the following passage for author's perspective: "I cautiously walked into the alley, alert for anything unusual, but there was no sound of drums or gongs or noise at all. The mop was still on the balcony. I looked into our lane. There were no trucks. Everything seemed calm, and I told grandma it was safe to go home"
Authors' perspective is the writer's personal feelings about the subject, and affects the way he or she writes. It can sometimes be found in direct statements by the author, or in connotative words used to describe events or people. During this event, they were afraid.
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Use context clues to determine the meaning of the capitalized words in the following passages. Somewhere a wild pig crashed through the undergrowth while Afa dashed away in PURSUIT. Mako paused anxiously. Armed only with his banana knife, he had no desire to meet the wild pig. Max's prize possession was an official Scout compass. "It's really swell," he told us. "You can't ever get lost with it. Got it at the Scout store." Horse commented that he hated that store, and said he didn't believe anything in it was real. "This compass is real," Max RETORTED. Points north all the time.
Pursuit: the act of following or chasing Retorted: replied, in a quick or unkind way
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How is the subject of poem characterized (what do you learn about her)in the following poem? What can you infer about the speaker's feelings toward the subject? The slender, shy, and sensitive young girl/ is a woman now,/ her words a power in the Ebon land./ Outside her window on the street/ a mass of life moves by./ Chicago is her city./
the subject is characterized as girl, who was thin, shy and sensitive, who has grown into a powerful woman that speaks out for the African-American community. She lives on a busy street in Chicago. You can infer that the speaker admires her and is proud of her for growing into a powerful activist.
500
Find the main idea in the following passage: "There are some significant differences between cultures concerning etiquette and hospitality. The role of the guest is quite different in America than it is in other countries. In America, guests are generally urged to 'make themselves at home.' Americans believe that both guests and hosts are most comfortable when neither is anxious about being too polite or reserved. For instance, if you are hungry you should not wait for your host to offer you food. It's perfectly normal to ask for a snack, or to make one yourself...
What's it about?--American customs What's the author want you to know about those customs?--that Americans believe that both guests and hosts are most comfortable when neither is anxious about being too polite or reserved.
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Analyze the following Yeats poem for meaning, figurative language, imagery ONE had a lovely face,/ And two or three had charm,/ But charm and face were in vain/ Because the mountain grass/ Cannot but keep the form/ Where the mountain hare has lain./
ONE had a lovely face, (pretty girl) And two or three had charm, (charming girls) But charm and face were in vain (but charm and beauty don't matter) Because the mountain grass (the memory) Cannot but keep the form (can't help but remember) Where the mountain hare has lain. (it's true love) The grass and the hare are both metaphors, the grass is the memory, the hare is the one who made the greatest impression. The last 3 lines also contain imagery (grassy mountain, wild rabbit laying in it)
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What is almost always the author's purpose in writing a fiction story?
To entertain