Fiction vocabulary
What is the word used to describe how authors develop their characters?
What is characterization
What is the name of a broad statement that an author makes?
Generalization
What is the name for the figurative language used when an author elicits reader reaction by using the 5 senses?
What is imagery
Describe 2 uses of dashes when writing.
Works like a comma to separate phrases
Works like a colon to separate lists
Works like an ellipsis to show unfinished statements or thoughts
Works like a comma to separate appositives
What does the first sentence, 2nd sentence, and the thesis in a TDA look like?
In the ______(genre) "Title", the author___(right verb)_____(finish the sentence in a way we know you read and understood it.)
Add a 2nd summary sentence
Thesis - include the 2 elements that need to be connected (comes from 2nd sentence in the prompt) and your answer/claim.
Draw and label the plot line.
exposition/1st conflict initiates rising action/rising action/turning point or climax/falling action/exposition
What is the name of the nonfiction text feature used by authors to organize their passages and give a hint to what the following section will entail?
Headings
What figurative language is used when an author uses a saying that does not literally mean what it says? Give an example as well.
What is idiom
It's raining cats and dogs out there.
It's a dog eat dog world out there.
What are the 3 verbals? (provide the definition of each)
Gerund - verb + ing - used as a noun
participle - verb = ed/en/ing - used as an adjective
infinitive - to + a verb in the present tense
What are the things we must we make sure we do when writing the "analysis" part of a TDA?
1-What is make sure we use the triangle words in the analysis - the 2 points to connect from the 2nd sentence in the prompt and the answer.
2-We have to EXPLAIN WHAT THE QUOTE MEANS. 3-USE BECAUSE - what follows is an explanation. Connect the quote to the thesis statement.
Name 4 organizational methods and with which genres those organizational methods are used.
sequential - chronological order (narrative)
stanzas (poem)
cause effect (nonfiction
problem solution
questions and answers
headings
What is the "official" name of the main idea and how does a reader determine it?
central idea or controlling - look over the passage for what the most important idea is; it is the one that the author spends the most time on
What figurative language is used when an author exaggerates? (Give an example as well.)
What is a hyperbole
What are 2 uses of an ellipses?
Replaces words left out in the middle of a quote or obvious text
Shows that a thought or list should continue in the same pattern
Shows a trailed off, unfinished thought at the end of a sentence
What word should be included in each analysis box to continue and ensure you have analysis? Why?
BECAUSE -
what follows is an explanation and an explanation is analysis
What does the first problem in a narrative do to the plot line?
The first problem or conflict initiates the rising action
What are 3 text features an author might use in a nonfiction passage & provide the definition for each?
What is a photo/caption, diagram, chart, graph, heading, bold words/specialized vocabulary, footnote, or timeline.
What is the implied meaning of words, such as negative or positive, that an author uses? (Give an example of a negative and a positive one as well)
What is the official name for the definition of a word?
Connotation and then denotation
An appositive is used for renaming and an example is:
Oskar, Mrs. Signor's dachsund, chewed up a squeaky toy last night.
What is in the circle in a TDA? How do you shorten a piece of explicit evidence?
Transition word (first, second, last)
introduce the explicit evidence (purpose of the quote in the text)
explicit evidence - not too long
shorten with ellipses
What is narrative dialogue and what does it do in a passage, and what 2 things can propel action in a text?
Narrative dialogue creates conflict and events, and dialogue propel action forward.
What 3 things about an objective summary that a reader must keep in mind?
What is an objective summary must include:
the main events of the passage in the order they occur, no small details, can include author opinions but no opinions of the reader
Define the following:
simile
metaphor
personification
alliteration
simile - using like or as to compare
metaphor - using is or are to compare
personification - giving human qualities to a nonhuman
alliteration - repeated consonants at beginning
separates items in a series
separates a direct quotation
separates a city from a state
separates month & day from state
separates 3 or more adjectives
sets apart appositives
What are the three areas that are scored on a TDA? Give 5 verbs that can be used instead of talks, says, and writes.
Reading comprehension
Analysis
Essay writing
any purple, pink, and white sheet words