Vocabulary
To smile in a mean way
smirk
Name all 5 plot points
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What's the setting of a story?
The time and place
When people are close friends, often sharing a secret. Klaus and Sunny are said to be like this.
Thick as thieves
If you don't know the meaning of a word in a story, what's ONE thing you can do?
Look at the context (words around it)
Look at the word parts (prefixes and suffixes)
Use a dictionary
a poor person
pauper
What does it mean to "connect" to a story?
To relate something in a story to your own life experiences.
What term answers "WHO" is in the story?
Character
To stay cheerful in a difficult situation
Keep your chin up
If you ask questions to check your understanding as you read, what are you doing?
Monitoring
Something deep and meaningful
profound
How do you know the point of view of a story?
Look at the pronouns; see if you know the feelings/thoughts of more than one character
If a story uses I, me, my, mine and tells a story from the main character's perspective, what is the point-of-view?
First-Person
To be unsure about something when you have 2 choices.
To be of two minds
If you use what you know, plus what you read to infer information, what are you doing?
Inferencing
The power someone has to affect others
Influence
What does "tone" mean?
The attitude (feeling) in the way a writer writes a story
Can be happy, sad, angry, nostalgic, lonely...
What is the end of the story called?
Resolution
To wish someone "good luck" in the theater.
Break a leg!
If you make connections between the story and things outside the story (like your life or another story) what are you doing?
Connecting
Someone who is easily affected or influenced
impressionable
What is the most exciting part of the story called?
The Climax
What is sensory language and how does it improve a story?
It uses the 5 senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
It lets us imagine a story more clearly. It gives us more details about people, places, and things.
To carefully look around a place. Robbers do this before they steal from somewhere.
Casing the joint
How many syllables are in the word "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
12!