Reading Strategies
The strategy you use to guess what will happen later in the story.
What is "make predictions"?
This narrative element describes the place and/or time period of a story.
What is the setting?
This device compares two things with the use of "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
She is the main character of Lamb to the Slaughter.
Who is Mary Maloney?
She is the author of Once Upon a Time.
Who is Nadine Gordimer?
The strategy that requires you to picture the setting, scenery, objects, etc. of a narrative.
What is 'visualize'?
This is the point-of-view that tells the story from a character's perspective, usually using words like "I" and "me".
What is 1st person point-of-view?
This literary device indicates a sound that resembles the word (eg. Crackle, Boom, Hiss).
What is onomatopoeia?
This is what Mary used as the murder weapon.
What is a leg of lamb?
The story ended with the death of this family member.
Who is the son / little boy?
The strategy that requires you to consider what you already know about a topic, subject, etc. of the story you are reading.
What is 'activate prior knowledge'?
This character type is someone who has conflict or goes against the main character of the story.
What is the antagonist?
This literary device gives hints to the reader about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
He is Mary's husband.
Who is Patrick Maloney?
The historical event in which Once Upon a Time was written about.
What is Apartheid?
This strategy involves using prior knowledge and considering clues from the text to make a guess about something in the reading.
What is 'make inferences'?
This point-of-view uses narration using the word "You". It is an uncommon POV but is used in "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories.
What is 2nd person point of view?
"Love is a red rose" and "The world's a stage" are examples of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
This is how Mary Maloney got rid of the murder weapon.
What is: she fed it to the police men? / she cooked it (etc.)
The wise old witch was this member of the family in the story.
Who is the husband's mother? (Also acceptable: the grandmother)
The strategy you use to find out something you are unsure of something in the text (a word, a phrase, content of the story, etc.).
What is 'check for understanding'? (use fix-up strategies is also acceptable)
These are the three main types of conflict we discussed in class.
What are: Person vs Self, Person vs Person, and Person vs External Force?
This type of irony occurs when something happens in a story that the reader does not expect.
What is situational irony?
This is what Mary Maloney used as her alibi to the policemen.
Mary's trip to the grocery store, speaking to Sam (the grocer) etc.
This was the phrase that was on the plaque in front of the family's home and kept being repeated throughout the story.
What is: YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED?