Literary Elements
What is a Protagonist?
The main character
What is an appositive?
A noun or noun phrase that renames or provides more information about another noun.
What is a Thesis
Your paper in a sentence
Define Adversity
difficulties, misfortune, obstacles, challenges, hardship, trials, etc.
In your own words, what is the essay about?
Adversity, and the overcoming of it, can be essential for personal growth. Through perseverance we can become better people.
What is an Antagonist?
The character (or thing) that opposes the main character
Identify the appositive in this sentence: My brother, a talented musician, plays the guitar.
A talented musician.
What comes between an outline and a rough draft?
A bullet draft
Identify the adversity that Rainsford faced in The Most Dangerous Game
Being hunted by General Zaroff
What was the name of the poem that talked about staircase?
Mother to Son
What is theme?
The message/moral of the story
Correct the sentence by adding commas: My sister Sarah is a great soccer player.
My sister, Sarah, is a great soccer player.
The rough draft is apart of what step in the writing process
In The Most Dangerous Game, how does adversity force Rainsford to change his worldview?
He saw the logical endpoint of his worldview: General Zaroff.
In Mother to Son what does the speaker's staircase represent?
How hard her life has been
What are Round-Flat and Dynamic-Static?
Full points if you know one, double if you know both
Round: a complex character
Flat: a simple character
Dynamic: The character changes throughout the story
Static: The character stays the same
Combine these sentences using an appositive: My friend is an excellent chef. My friend made dinner last night.
My friend, an excellent chef, made dinner last night.
What is the step before drafting?
Prewriting
What was the adversity that Trevor Noah overcame?
He grew up in a racist system of segregation that made him being born mixed a crime
Identify the elements of the PEEL method
Point
Evidence
Explanation
Link
What type of character is Rainsford?
Double points if you can also identify Zaroff
Rainsford is Round Dynamic
Zaroff is Round Static
What is the difference between an essential and a nonessential appositive?
An essential appositive provides information that is necessary to understand the noun and does not require commas, while a nonessential appositive adds extra information and is set off by commas.
What are the three main parts of an essay?
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
In Mother to Son, what was the speaker's (the mother) response to having a hard life?
She kept on moving forward. "I'se still steppin"
Describe the steps of the PEEL paragraph
Point - Topic sentence
Evidence - how do we know it?
Explanation - why is the evidence here?
Link - How does this fit with your thesis?