Comma Sense
What is the most important thing commas do?
Separate sentence elements
What are the 3 types of figurative language we went over in class?
Metaphors, alliteration, imagery
What are the two types of dialogue?
External and internal dialogue
What does narrow focus mean?
Who, what, when, or where. The basic elements of a story.
What does gregarious mean?
Sociable
Is this an independent or a dependent clause? “Whenever I travel”
Dependent Clause
What type of figurative language is this?
The classroom was a zoo.
Metaphor
How do you show external dialogue in a piece of writing?
Quotations
What does a larger focus mean?
It’s the why. Why is the author writing about this thing?
What does juxtaposed mean?
Place or deal with items close together for a contrasting effect.
When writing addresses, where do the commas go?
Place a comma after the street name.
Place a comma between the city and state.
If the sentence continues, place a comma after the state.
Do not place a comma between the state and the ZIP code.
What type of figurative language is this?
"Betty Botter bought some butter."
Alliteration
How do you show internal dialogue in a piece of writing when the narrator isn’t saying the internal dialogue?
Italics
What is the narrow focus of this passage?
I was living alone, as described, on an island in Puget Sound, near the Canadian border. I was thirty years old. I thought about myself a lot, because I couldn’t figure out what I was doing there. What was my life about?
The narrow focus is on a person living alone on an island near the Canadian border.
What does syntax mean?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Where do the commas go?
Albert Einstein a brilliant german-born physicist discovered that the force of gravity can bend light.
Albert Einstein, a brilliant German-born physicist, discovered that the force of gravity can bend light.
What type of figurative language is this?
The waves crashed against the rocks with a thunderous roar.
Imagery
What type of dialogue is this?
“Drewskie is period ah. You are period, ugh. Period ah, period ugh.”
External
What is the larger focus of the passage?
I was living alone, as described, on an island in Puget Sound, near the Canadian border. I was thirty years old. I thought about myself a lot, because I couldn’t figure out what I was doing there. What was my life about?
This person is wondering who they are as a person.
What is imagery?
visually descriptive or figurative language that uses the 5 senses.
Where do the commas go?
Mercury Venus Mars and Pluto resemble our planet’s size chemical composition and density.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto resemble our planet’s size, chemical composition, and density.
What type of figurative language is this and why?
"Love seeketh not itself to please, / Nor for itself hath any care, / But for another gives its ease, / And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
Alliteration because the “S” sound is repeated.
What type of dialogue is this?
I really want some ice cream right now.
Internal
What was the larger focus of “Transfiguration,” by Annie Dillard?
Not to give up, even when times are tough.
Trick Question, this is about metaphors. What is the metaphor comparing in this quote?
"Live every day like a Baja Blast, cause it could be your baja last."
The metaphor compares someone's day to a Baja Blast from Taco Bell.