Series of events in the story. Includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
What is plot?
100
This type of figurative language.
Example: The sun is a glimpse of heaven.
What is a metaphor?
100
This includes all the methods by which an author creates a character: descriptions, conversations, what others say about him, how he acts, how people treat him, etc.
What is characterization?
100
The way a poem is organized.
What are lines and stanzas?
100
Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning.
What are context clues?
200
The struggle between two opposing forces. May be internal or external.
What is conflict?
200
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
What is personification?
200
When an author directly states a character's traits.
Example: Her eyes were blue and her hair was dark.
What is direct characterization.
200
Language that appeals to the senses. Often creates a mental picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200
The point of suspense, interest, or conflict in the story. Sometimes called the breaking point.
What is the climax.
300
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
To exaggerate.
Example: I would walk 1,000 miles to see that movie.
What is a hyperbole?
300
When an author shows a character's personality through his or her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, or through another character's observations or reactions.
What is indirect characterization.
300
This poem tells a story. It has characters, plot, conflict, setting, theme and all other elements of a story.
What is narrative poetry?
300
Author's purpose- three reason an author writes.
What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?
400
This normally tells the reader the setting, characters, and point of view.
What is the exposition.
400
This type of figurative language.
Example: You are as smart as a whip.
What is a simile.
400
When an author uses indirect characterization, the author expects the reader to "fill in the gaps" by applying prior knowledge and experience to reach a conclusion about the character. This is called making an _____.
What is an inference.
400
The author's attitude toward the subject which he is writing about.
What is tone?
400
A method to remember examples of figurative language.
What is ISHAMPOO?
500
List the types of 3 point of view.
What are first person, second person, and third person.
500
The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of words.
What is alliteration.
500
You cite/use ________ to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
What is textual evidence
500
What method can you use to analyze a poem?
What is SOAPSTone? Explain each part.
500
A meaning that is suggested rather than directly stated. Implied through clues that lead the reader to make assumptions and draw conclusions.