VOCABULARY
Writing in time order
What is CHRONOLOGICAL?
Locked in a closet by her peers in "All Summer in a Day"
Who is MARGOT?
A person who writes a story.
What is an AUTHOR?
In this fictional tale, a father and store owner misses his adolescent son.
What is "PAPA'S PARROT"?
Found around dialogue.
What are QUOTATION MARKS?
A person who lives 100 years or more.
What is a CENTENARIAN?
He treasured an old harmonica.
Who is LEMON BROWN?
A type of crab that was the size of a garbage can.
What is a COCONUT CRAB?
In this historical non-fiction story, the author describes the tragedy surrounding a ship carrying hydrogen.
What is "THE FALL OF THE HINDENBURG"?
A period, question mark, or exclamation point.
What are END MARKS?
Making a comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a SIMILE?
Wants to find out the truth about what happened to his eyes.
Who is PAUL FISHER?
Interrupting time in a story to tell something from the past.
What is a FLASHBACK?
In this story a young boy learns a valuable life lesson from a homeless man.
What is "THE TREASURE OF LEMON BROWN"?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so
What are the COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS or FANBOYS?
Figurative language type that repeats the same consonant sound.
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed
What is ALLITERATION?
Loved the highwayman.
Who is BESS the landlord's daughter?
Genre of reading that includes a cast of characters and stage directions.
What is a DRAMA or PLAY?
A narrative poem in which the main character rides the countryside robbing people.
What is "THE HIGHWAYMAN"?
Examples of these include before, although, and after.
What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
What is FICTION?
He gets struck by lightning on a football field in Florida.
Who is MIKE COSTELLO?
An army of mice helped solve a big ______ problem with the use of parachutes.
What is a SNAKE?
In this story a very old women tells a story of her "exciting life" and then kicks a newsman out of her room.
What is "THE THREE CENTURY WOMAN"?
The only punctuation mark that can join to complete sentences
What is a SEMICOLON?