Vocabulary
A crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds.
What is a hate-crime?
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
a story that you write or tell to someone
What is a narrative?
A mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead.
Author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
To turn aside from a course.
What is a clause?
That night, Jasmine noticed that Richard seemed sad.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
He wouldn’t tell her.
What is narrative?
come or bring together for a common purpose or action.
What is unite?
The angle from which a story is told which determines what the reader can access from the narrative.
What is point of view?
Done by stealthy or secret means.
What is surreptitiously?
Two independent clauses connected with a comma and a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
Karl was sure he wasn’t hearing right. He walked around his classroom closing windows and gathering his things.
What is narrative?
a cycle with a single wheel
What is a unicycle?
Creates images that are easier to understand and respond to than literal language using a comparison.
What is a metaphor?
To come about or happen
What is transpire?
Placed between two independent clauses that are closely related in subject matter.
What is a semi-colon?
When Richard arrived at the police station on the day of his arrest, the officers placed him in interview room 202 and . . . left him there.
What is informative?
remaining the same in all cases and at all times
What is uniform?
The emotional state of mind of a person/character or the atmosphere of a story.
What is mood?
The rhythm of the entire story and how the chain of events fall into place.
What is pacing?
Reveals additional information and is placed after an independent clause.
What is a colon?
Two days after Richard’s arrest, the district attorney’s office released his name to the media.
What is informative?
Simultaneous performance of action
'Some ship in distress, that cannot live.' is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?