Unit 1
What is Context?
Clues in the text
What does assuage mean?
To make less intense.
What does arduous mean?
Extremely difficult to acheive
What does proboscis mean?
long, thin nose of an animal, or tubular mouth of an insect
What is waylay?
What are four important literary devices?
What is connotation?
Refering to emotions or ideas that are associated with a word.
What varies in Perspective?
An authors attitudes, values or beliefs.
What happens when you make an inference?
You make an educated guess
What is pacing?
the rhythm of a story
How do you develop tone?
You decide on what emotion you want your reader to have.
What is incorporated in Gothic Romanticism?
Negative dark feelings
What revising strategy involves a third party?
Peer Review
How do you support evidence?
By refering back to the text
What is a literary analysis?
explains and interprets the meaning of literary text
How do you find the theme in an excerpt?
You analyze the text and support your findings with the text.
What is satire in literature?
Corruptions or absurdities of a society, an idea, an individual, and so on are exposed as a way to call attention to something that needs to be improved.
What is ambiguity?
Unclear or uncertain meanin, or mulitple interpretations.
What is perspective?
is the author’s or a character’s attitudes, values, or opinions that influence the representation of a topic
What are the narrative elements?
plot, characters, characterization, setting, tone
How do you develop the setting?
In what point of the plot do you build tension?
Rising Action
What is the final phase of the writing process?
Editing and proofreading
How do you find implicit evidence?
By finding text that is not clearly stated
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