Fiction Analysis
The message or moral the author wants you to learn from a story.
What is Theme?
This is the main topic that an article or text is about.
What is Main or Central Idea?
RACE stands for...
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain
This is when a group of lines has the same sound at the end. Typically there is some kind of pattern.
Rhyme Scheme
What is the lightbulb; represented knowledge
The way a character grows & changes over the course of a text.
Characterization
There are 3 main purposes that an author has when writing a text. Name them.
What is Inform, Entertain, and Persuade?
ICE stands for...
What is Introduce/Incorporate, Cite, Explain?
This is the word for a group of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
When two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect Ex. Living death, jumbo shrimp
What is Oxymoron?
A reference to another person, place, or text within a story.
What is Allusion?
What is Description, Sequence/Order of Events, Problem & Solution, Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast?
There are this many constructed responses on the EOC exam.
What is 4?
An object, person, or situation/event that represents something else.
What is symbolism?
Details from a text that appeal to the five senses.
What is Imagery?
The feelings that are associated with a word despite its actual meaning.
What is connotation?
An author does this in their writing when they are trying to persuade the reader to do something.
What is using enticing language, highlighting appealing features/details, offering benefits/deals?
There are this many questions total on the EOC.
What is 60?
Two consecutive lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
True or False: you MUST pass the EOC to get credit for English 2.
False. You must TAKE the EOC, but if you fail it and still pass the class you can get credit.
The way an author/speaker feels about the subject they are writing about.
An author does this when trying to write a text that entertains.
What is using dialogue, descriptive details, and interesting structures/language to draw the audience in.
The EOC is worth this percentage of your final grade.
Language that is not meant to be taken literally & is used as a tool by authors to create depth & meaning within a text.
What is Figurative Language?
Give an example of character development from Anthem.
Answers may vary. Teacher discretion.