Grammar
The word class of the word in italics in the following sentence: The HTX students longed for the Christmas holiday.
What is a verb?
What is a wallflower?
The English name of the comic strip Steen og Stoffer
What is Calvin and Hobbes?
The name of the genre where we analyse 'the gutter, the frame, the panel, the caption'
What are graphic novels/comic strips?
A distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme
What is a paragraph?
The word class which is used to describes nouns (e.g. a green door, a hungry teacher, an interesting book)
What is an adjective?
Charlie's first girlfriend
Who is Mary Elizabeth?
The genre of the speech we read by Tim Minchin (9 Life Lessons)
What is a graduation speech?
The genres that we analyse in English class (name at least three)
what are poetry, novels, short stories, movies, graphic novels/comics, speeches, news segments, articles...?
A sentence that states the main thought of a paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
The word for the Danish word 'grundled'
What is a subject?
The name of the teacher who talks to Charlie about 'problems at home' and gives him books to read
Who is Bill?
The term for the generation whose lives according to Professor of Psychology Jean Twenge has been adversely affected by the smart phone
What is iGen?
The term for the figurative language used in Tim Minchin's sentence, "... listen up or you’ll get lost like a blind man clapping in a pharmacy trying to echo-locate the contact lens fluid"
What is a metaphor?
Words at the head of a text which summarizes the substance
What is a headline?
The word class which may often be created by adding the suffix -ly to an adjective (e.g. quick / quickly)
What is an adverb?
The author of The Perks of Being a wallflower
Who is Stephen Chbosky?
The title of the poem by Sharon Olds which contains the phrase 'you will do bad things to children'
What is I go back to May 1937?
Another word for the 'main character' of a work of fiction
What is a protagonist?
words like 'however, such as, thus' used in a text to connect passages and ideas
What are linkers?
The word class used to describe the relationship between words in terms of (for example) time and place
What is a preposition?
The genre of the type of novel written as a series of letters
What is an epistolary novel?
The text/work that has the quote:
"Always tell the truth. Always take the high road. Live each day like it could be your last. Drink it in. Be adventurous, be bold, but savor it. It goes fast"
What is Captain Fantastic?
Rhetorical devices which we use to create effects in our writing (e.g. "Whisper words of wisdom", "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth", "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (name four)
What is (e.g.) alliteration, anaphora, epiphora, triad, apostrophe, hyperbole, metaphor, rhetorical questions?
A term used to describe the way the elements of a text are linked ('the glue of the text')
What is cohesion?