Vocabulary and Word Choice
What does diction mean?
What is an authors choice of word or style choice.
Identify the subject and verb: Running through the rain, the boy slipped on the sidewalk.
Subject = boy, Verb = slipped
What is a theme?
An overall theme or lesson
Identify the device: The leaves danced in the wind.
What is personification?
A paragraph should have these three main parts.
What are topic sentence or assertion, supporting details, and concluding sentence?
This word means the emotions or ideas associated with a word beyond its dictionary meaning.
What is connotation?
Combine these with a subordinating conjunction: She was tired. She finished her essay anyway.
What is Although she was tired, she finished her essay anyway?
This story element influences mood by creating atmosphere and context.
What is setting?
This kind of irony happens when the audience knows something the characters don’t.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the purpose of a topic sentence/assertion
What is to introduce the main argument of the paragraph and connect back to the thesis.
Replace the word happy in this sentence with a stronger synonym: She was happy about the results.
What is thrilled, overjoyed, delighted, ecstatic
Correct the error: The group of students are going on a field trip.
What is The group of students is going on a field trip?
The difference between these two is that one takes place inside the character’s mind, and the other happens against outside forces.
What are internal conflict and external conflict?
Difference between simile and metaphor + give examples.
What is a simile compares using like/as (e.g., brave as a lion), while a metaphor states something is something else (e.g., he is a lion in battle)?
Revise: The dog ran across the yard. (make it more detailed)
Example: The energetic dog sprinted across the wide, grassy yard.
In the sentence "His cold stare froze me in place", this word is being used figuratively.
What is cold?
Write a compound sentence about your favourite book or movie.
Example: I loved the ending, and my friend thought it was amazing too.
An author might choose first-person narration for this reason.
What is to create intimacy, reliability, or bias in perspective?
This device hints at events that will come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A strong conclusion includes this (two things)
What are restating the thesis in a new way, summarizing the paper, and leaving the reader with a final thought or reflection? (pick 2)
An author might choose to use slang or dialect in a character’s dialogue to achieve this effect.
What is to make the character more realistic, authentic, or to show cultural background?
Which one is a fragment?
A) Because she was late.
B) She was late to the party.
What is A) Because she was late?
The statement The character feels trapped in her circumstances is this type of reading response.
What is an inference?
Identify the device: The silence was so loud it hurt my ears.
What is oxymoron or paradox (accept either)
Name and explain one rhetorical device (such as repetition, parallelism, or rhetorical question) that you could use in an essay to strengthen your argument.
What is repetition (emphasizing a key point), parallelism (creating rhythm and balance in structure), or rhetorical question (engaging the reader and making them think)?