Characters/Setting
After coming home late from a party, Mae's father questioned her. She wanted to tell him that she was studying at a friend's place and lost track of time, but she told him the truth instead: she was at a party. Mae’s father was disappointed but commended her for telling the truth.
What character traits are revealed in this passage? A. Dishonest, selfish, unethical
B. Innocent, faultless blameless
C. Honesty, integrity, courage
D. Spoiled, pampered, indulged
C. Honesty, integrity, courage
A cookbook filled with recipes from around the world.''
What is the author's purpose from PIEED?
Explain
I slept for an eternity during spring break.
What kind of figurative language is this?
Hyperbole
List five words you might find in text that evoke a happy mood.
Endless options!
amusing, bright, calm, charming, cheerful, comfortable, dreamy, excited, harmonious, hopeful, inspiring, joyful, light-hearted, lively, magical, optimistic, playful, silly, triumphant, upbeat...
Teachers try to make their lessons rigorous, but not so hard that the students will be frustrated. What does the word rigorous mean?
A. difficult
B. easy
C. frustrating
D. interesting
A. difficult
Kevin has tried out for the basketball team for the last three years. Each year he has been cut from the team because other athletes have outperformed him. Kevin has been practicing all summer, however, and he knows that this is his year. It has to be. He can feel it.
A. Serious, somber, pensive
B. Persistent, resilient, optimistic
C. Lucky, fortunate, prosperous
D. Spoiled, pampered, coddled
B. Persistent, resilient, optimistic
A speech written by a member of the debate team in preparation for the school debate.
What is the author's purpose from PIEED?
Persuade
The flower danced in the wind.
Personification
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.
What is the tone of the poem?
a. painful.
b. delighted.
c. sarcastic.
d. argumentative.
a. painful.
I was indignant that my sister would use my hairbrush without asking.
Use the sentence to find out what "indignant" means.
Annoyed, aggitated
What is the setting of a story? List five examples.
The where/when.
Many examples possible! (Time of day, holiday, weather, physical location, year, etc.)
In 1872, Elijah McCoy, and engineer from Canada, invented a way to keep the moving parts of train cars constantly oiled. As a result, trains did not have to stop every few miles for oiling. Soon, no machine was considered any good unless it had one of McCoy’s oil cups. To be sure they got a good train, engineers began saying they wanted “the real McCoy.” In time, the phrase came to mean “the real thing.”
The Author’s main purpose for writing this passage is to
a. Entertain the reader with a story about Elijah McCoy.
b. Inform the reader about how Elijah McCoy grew up in Canada.
c. inform the reader about how Elijah McCoy made trains better by creating oil cups.
d. Persuade the reader that Elijah McCoy’s oil cups were the best cups to use
c. inform the reader about how Elijah McCoy made trains better by creating oil cups.
The flowers are a rainbow that covers our playground with color.
Metaphor
O, how I lose strength when I write about you, knowing that someone else also writes about you, and in praising you, he spends all of his energy to make me tongue-tied. When I try to write tell about your beauty, my words are not as powerful as his, and so, I am a wrecked boat and worthless poet, he is a tall building and overshadows me. If you choose him, I will be thrown away like a cast-away, and the awful truth is that my love for you will have been wasted
“I am a wrecked boat.” What does this line mean?
a. The narrator is feeling worthless and helpless.
b. The narrator has wrecked his boat trying to get to his loved one.
c. The narrator feels like he has won the prize (the girl).
d. The narrator is slowly getting more depressed.
a. The narrator is feeling worthless and helpless.
The counselor tried to keep the tense meeting between the parents and the principal cordial by reminding them that they are on the same side.
What does cordial mean?
Friendly
Directly explain this scene with the character Simone:
Simone made every excuse possible to not go to the office Christmas party with her coworkers. She just wanted to go home and watch TV with her cat, as she did every night.
Simone is not a "people person" or social.
Jyl needed a new coat, so Della promised to go shopping with her on Saturday. When Della got a poor grade on her math test on Friday, she wasn't sure what she should do. She wanted to go with Jyl, and she had given her word. Still, she needed to study more if she was going to do better on the next quiz on Monday. She stared at her shoes and had a lump in her throat when she told her friend she couldn't go shopping.
To Della's surprise, Jyl was very supportive. "We can study together on Saturday, and then if you feel ready for the test, we can shop on Sunday," Jyl said. "Or we can go next weekend. Your grades are more important."
The reader would know ______________ if the story were told from Jyl's point of view.
a. what Della would do if she does not do well on the next quiz
b. how much Della plans to study in order to get better grades
c. what exact grade Della gets on the difficult math test
d. how Jyl would react when Della says she could not go shopping
d. how Jyl would react when Della says she could not go shopping
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem
Choose two pieces of figurative language from the poem and tell which types they are (they are the same).
Personification
Picture the lighthouse—a tall gray cylinder welded to the solid rock by iron rods. Picture it rising into the air, twenty miles from land. Yes, this rock was actually an island in the midst of the sea, an island of rock….But you had to be very careful when you walked about, for the stones on this island were extremely slippery. One misstep and you could fall into the sea. Not that the risk of drowning was so great—but the waters around the island swarmed with sharks.
How does the line “twenty miles from land” make the reader feel?
Tense, eerie, alone
The doctor told Nelyda that she needed to supplement her poor diet with a daily vitamin pill.
What does the word supplement mean?
Add, help fix
Indirectly explain this scene with the character Ed:
Ed was shy.
A full, strong sentence giving an example with hints of Ed being shy (blushing, not making eye contact, stuttering)
“A dare is a dare,” Ben heard his friend Tony say behind him as he walked up the creaking steps.
The October wind started blowing harder the closer Ben got to the front door. Old, grey wood covered in spider webs surrounded him.
There’s no way out this now, he thought. Why did I make up that story in the first place?
“Come on, man!” Tony called to Ben. “I don’t have all day!”
Ben glanced down at the rusted, metal door handle. He could see teeny bumps covering his skin like the chicken he sometimes saw his mom making for dinner.
He closed his eyes, grabbed the cold, metal handle, and pushed the door open.
If the passage were told from Tony’s perspective, the reader would probably learn
a. why Ben lies to Tony about going inside the old house.
b. what Tony does after Ben goes inside the old house.
c. whether Tony and Ben’s parents are worried about them.
d. what Ben tells his family about going in the old house.
b. what Tony does after Ben goes inside the old house.
List four different types of of figurative language with an example OR definition for each.
Onomatopoeia
Smile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Symbolism
Personification
Alliteration
List three things that can impact the mood of a text or movie.
Word choice
Lighting
Sounds
Visual effects (like flashing)
Underlining, bolding, italicizing, or capitalizing a word
Punctuation
Mr. Gray likes domestic cheeses, but his wife likes imported cheeses from France and Italy.
What does the word domestic mean?
Things from the country you live in.