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MY PART OF THE STORY
TONE IT UP
ITS A PLAY ON WORDS
WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS
KNOW WHAT IM TAHM BOUT
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A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something.
What is NARRATOR
100
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
What is SATIRE
100
A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah.)
What is SIMILE
100
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is SETTTING
100
To give reasons through an explanation to convey and represent the meaning or understanding of a text
What is INTERPRET
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The author’s central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph.
What is MAIN IDEA
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The assigned writing. Factors that affect the writer’s task are purpose, audience, and organizational structure.
What is TASK
200
The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
What is ALLITERATION
200
Various sentence structures, styles, and lengths that can enhance the rhythm of or add emphasis to a piece of text. The presence of multiple sentence structures in a text (simple, complex, compound, compound-complex) and/or various sentence beginnings (e.g., dependent and independent clauses, phrases, single words).
What is SENTENCE VARIETY
200
The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result
What is IRONY
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The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. The plot may have a protagonist who is opposed by an antagonist, creating what is called conflict.
What is PLOT
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Text that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct or describe rather than entertain. For the most part, its emphasis is factual. -
What is NONFICTION
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The comparison of two un-like things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used (e.g., The speech gave me food for thought.)
What is METAPHOR
300
A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be performed.
What is SEQUENCE OF STEPS
300
Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information. Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, reports, directions, brochures, technical manuals).
What is INFORMATION TEXT
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The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elements such as setting. The mood of a work is not always what might be expected based on its subject matter.
What is MOOD
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A personal view, attitude, or appraisal
What is OPINION
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- The writer’s established attitude toward the audience, the subject, or the work itself.
What is TONE
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A sentence that describes the main/controlling idea that will be developed within a particular paragraph.
What is TOPIC SENTENCE
400
The basic argument or main idea advanced by a writer.
What is THESIS STATEMENT
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An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.
What is MONOLOGUE
500
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work
What is MOTIF
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A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy.
What is ALLEGORY
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Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell the story. Statements that define, describe, or otherwise provide information about the topic, theme, or main idea.
What is KEY/ SUPPORTING DETAILS
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A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understanding gained by “reading between the lines.”
What is INFERENCE