Vocab
What does casual mean?
What is ordinary or everyday — not too special, unusual, fancy, serious, or eventful.
Comparison using "like" or "as"
What is Simile
what is the authors main point in a passage
what is controlling message
What's the definition of theme?
What is Theme is the big idea, or message behind a work. It is the basic idea in which the story was built upon.
Sarah walked to the carnival. She rode all the rides and ate tons of food. When she went home she was really happy.(May be more than one)
What is the carnival and home?
What does relevant mean?
What is appropriate or connected to the matter at hand. Relevant things are helpful and on point.
Giving human qualities to non-human things
What is personifaction
What literary elements identifing the primary point, central argument, or overall message of a passage
What is Main idea
What is a central theme?
What is Just a fancier way of asking for the theme.
Ernest went to school. He took a bus home, and when he arrived at his front door, his dog ate his homework.
What is the school, the bus, and his house
What does Somber mean?
What is moods that are dark, gloomy, or depressing. Funerals are usually somber affairs.
"Pink and purple popsicles" is an example of what?
What is Alliteration
Not all animals that live in the water are fish. Frogs and tadpoles, for example, spend part of their lives in water but are amphibians. Whales and seals are mammals that live in the ocean. Even some snakes live partly in water but are categorized as reptiles.
what is the main idea?
What is (B) Many different types of non-fish animals live in the water.
What does it mean to find the author's purpose of a text?
what is What does it mean to find the author's purpose of a text?
Jacquelyn went to swim practice. Afterwards, she went to Chick-fil-A for dinner.
What is the swimming pool and Chick-fil-A?
What does elusive mean?
What is elusive are hard to find, pin down, or remember.
"Thundering silence" is an example of what?
What is Oxymoron
The main idea can two types which are?
What is Implicit and Explicit.
How do you find theme?
What is Through the characters experiences.
Charlotte took dance lessons on Fridays. Afterwards, her mom would pick her up in their SUV.
What is the dance studio and SUV?
levi was effecting climate change by burning fossile fuels.
what is wrong with the vocabulary?
what is effecting changed to affecting.
"I am a deeply superficial person" or "The silence was deafening."
What is Paradox
When we hear the term "reality" applied to a show, we might expect that the events on the show occurred naturally and were not scripted. This is not always the case. Many reality shows occur in unreal environments, like rented mansions occupied by film crews. Such living environments do not reflect what most people understand to be "reality." Worse, there have been accusations that events not captured on film were later re-created by producers. Worse still, some involved in the production of "reality" television claim that the participants were urged to act out story lines that were planned out by producers. With such accusations floating around, it's no wonder many people take reality TV to be about as real as the sitcom.
What IS "Reality" TV shows do not actually show real-life events or environments.
How is theme written and supported?
what is Theme is written in a sentence. It is supported through evidence from the text.
Jake played basketball with his friend at the park. After the first half, he and his friend decided to take a lunch break. After they ate, they returned to their game, but Jake's friend felt sick and threw up. They had to return home.
What is the park and home.