Flies & Raisin
Who is the main antagonist in Lord of the Flies?
Jack
Hand me your test.
What's the subject?
Implied you
Really descriptive language that relates to one or more of your senses
Imagery
In analytical writing, always avoid personal ________.
Pronouns
Poet and playwright who wrote Hamlet
Shakespeare
Who says the following?
"Here I am a giant--surrounded by ants!"
Walter
Receives the action
Direct Object
A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"
Simile
The sentence that establishes the main point of an essay
Thesis Statement
What was the pen name of Eric Blair?
George Orwell
Which character suggests of the beast that "maybe it's only us"?
Simon
Kick me the ball. What is "me"?
Indirect object
Using objects, people, etc. to represent ideas
Symbolism
The first sentence in an introduction paragraph/ what grabs your reader's attention
hook
Novel in which a character is told to "stay gold"
The Outsiders
What's ONE thing that Langston Hughes compares a dream to?
Rotten meat, candy, a raisin, a heavy load, a bomb?
My mom is a dentist.
What is "dentist" in this sentence?
Predicate noun
An unreliable narrator or sunny imagery matched with a horrifying ending would both be examples of...
irony
Write about a story in the _______ tense.
present
Poet who wrote "Two woods diverged in a wood, and I/ --I took the one less traveled by."
Robert Frost
Who pushes the rock on Piggy and has a stick "sharpened on both ends"?
Roger
gerund
A literary device that means exaggeration
Hyperbole
How would you correctly cite a quote from an author named Sue Fisher that appears on page 34?
(Fisher 34)
following the quotation
Author of Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens