Sentences
Who or what a sentence is about
Subject
The two classroom rules
Work hard and be nice
The author of Red Scarf Girl (first name is fine)
Ji-Li
The narrator kills the old man because of this
To restate a longer or more complicated text into simpler words
paraphrase
What the subject is or does
Predicate
The words I am going to get back to saying to dismiss you from class
Be Kind, Be Smart, Be a Leader
Ji-Li's grandfather was this--one of the worst black categories
landlord
The narrator says he is not mad, just this . . .
nervous
In "Tell Tale Heart," the narrator says his hearing is "acute," which means what?
very sharp
The three things that make a complete sentence
Subject, predicate, complete thought
(I will accept noun, verb, complete thought)
The pictures an author creates by describing the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings of a scene
Imagery
Da zi bao are . . .
the big letter posters that said mean things about people that were hung up around schools and all around the city
Dismember means this
cut a body into parts
I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
The meaning of fury is . . .
anger
If you are missing a subject or predicate, what do you have instead of a complete sentence?
Fragment
Besides a FANBOY, you need this to combine two complete sentences into one
comma
The name of the leader everyone had to be loyal to during the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
Chairman Mao
The police were sent to the old man's house because. . .
a neighbor heard someone scream
"But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased."
Ceased means . . .
stopped
If you combine more than one complete thought without the proper punctuation, you have this
A run-on
Name the FANBOYS
The book Red Scarf Girl is what special genre of nonfiction?
memoir
The M'Naghton Rule says one of these two things must be true for someone to be declared insane
1. He did not know what he was doing
2. He did not know what he was doing was wrong
"I felt that I must scream or die!— and now—again!—hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!"
"hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story."
"Hark" and "hearken" are related. They mean this, which I always want you to do, too.
listen