Ray Bradbury the Master
The State of Illinois is where he is from.
Where is Ray Bradbury From?
A small phrase attached to the front of a word.
What is a Prefix?
To better understand text, to search for specific points, to answer our questions from reading, to analyze the text more closely, to take notes on the text
What are reasons for rereading?
The main source of a word's meaning
What is a root word?
A type of art or music
What is Genre?
Phrases or words that are read in a non-literal way. May be used to create beauty, humor, or complexity in language.
What is Figurative Language?
He got his start writing for newspapers.
What was Ray Bradbury's first major career?
Prefix meaning Again
What is Re-?
A topic that has multiple answers
What is an Open-ended Topic?
Root word meaning to say
What is Dict?
Tells Facts, Based on Real Life information, May be based around real people
What is non-fiction?
Comparison between two things; not using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The Illustrated Man
The Martian Chronicles
What are two other novels Ray Bradbury wrote?
Prefix meaning not
What is Un-?
Recall, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Synthesize, Evaluate
What are the Levels of Thinking?
Root word meaning "a kind of something"
Has non-real characters, entertains rather than teaches, MAY be based on real life
What is Fiction?
Describing an object using human qualities such as "scream" or "dance"
What is Personification?
He accepted the Pulitzer Prize
What prize did Ray Bradbury achieve?
Suffix meaning you can do something
What is -able?
Gathering details, acquiring information, creating a thesis statement, creating an outline
What is Prewriting?
Root word meaning "to kill"
What is Cide?
Asks about a possible future. Questions our choices now and how they will affect the future
What is Speculative Fiction?
Saying "too much" about something; exaggerating
What is Hyperbole?
Science Fiction, Questions our current reality, talks about the future, Has great imagery and figurative language
What are characteristics of Ray Bradbury's books?
A phrase that appears at the end of a word, changing its meaning
What is a suffix?
Expanding ideas, asking questions about our own writing, working out problems, correcting grammar and spelling.
What is Revising?
Root word meaning Fake, Not the Original
What is Pseudo?
Our novel questions our reliance on technology and how it is changing the society around us?
How is our Novel Speculative Fiction?
Using sensory words and details to create visual images in our minds as we read.
What is Imagery?
What is a "What if" question?
Suffix meaning "A person or tool who does something"; alters a verb to a noun
What is -er?
Finishing our writing free of errors, typing it on a computer using 12 point font, Times New Roman, Double-spaced, Adding a proper Title and Bibliography
What is Publishing?
What is Legal?
When two words a different from each other and are used together; "The silence was deafening."
What is an oxymoron?
A set of words that are meant to convey meaning different from the literal sense of the phrase; on cloud nine.
What is an idiom?