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What is a noun ?
A person, place or thing
What is the exposition of a story?
What does it mean to annotate something?
To take notes on what we are reading
Acceptable answers:
- This is the last straw! - When pigs fly!
- A blessing in disguise. - To eat your words
- Cold shoulder - Cold-hearted
- Break a leg! - Beat around the bush
- Kicked the bucket - Feeling under the weather
- Cost an arm and a leg - Hit the sack
- Hit the nail on the head - Hit the books
- Couch potato
What does it mean to taunt someone?
Make fun of to insult them
What does an adjective do?
Describes a noun
What are the good and bad characters called in a story?
Protagonist and Antagonist
Which type of irony it is when sarcasm is being used by the character?
Verbal Irony
Which type of irony is happening here:
"A couple appears in court to finalize a divorce, but during the proceeding, they reconcile and decide to remarry instead."
Situational Irony
Prey
What is a verb ?
An action or a state of being
Name the 6 types of conflict.
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Self
Man vs. Technology
Man vs. The Supernatural
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Nature
What type of Irony was see at the end of cemetery path? **When Ivan dies from fright because he thinks a ghost has him but we know as the readers that he really stabbed the end of his coat into the ground**
When a story makes you feel a certain emotion that is the story's what?
Mood
What was the theme of Cemetery Path ?
If we give into our fears they will destroy us
What does a preposition do?
it relates the subject to the object in the sentence
Also tells you location, time, direction or possession
What is the turning point of the story called ?
Climax
When author's use imagery what does that help the reader do?
Paint a better picture in your head about what is going on in the story.
What does it mean to be timid?
To be scared easily or lack confidence
What is the end of the story called when they solve the conflict?
Resolution
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?
My mom is cooking in the kitchen.
In the kitchen.
When we talk about the THEME of a story what does that mean?
The message that the story is trying to teach us.
What is an idiom?
A group of words ( a phrase) that means something totally different than what is stated.
What is a synonym for mockery
tease
What was the title of the Cossack officer?
Lieutenant