Central Idea
Definition of Central Idea
What is The main point the author is trying to make.
Definition of Perspective
Perspective is how the characters view and process what's happening within the story.
Definition of Theme
The moral or lesson of the story
What is the definition of Figurative Language?
Figurative language makes meaning by asking the reader or listener to understand something by virtue of its relation to some other thing, action, or image.
A paragraph in a poem is called
What is a stanza?
Where is the Central Idea in the Text?
It can be anywhere in the text.
How are Point of View and Perspective different?
Point of view focuses on the type of narrator used to tell the story. Perspective focuses on how this narrator perceives what's happening within the story.
What is an example of a theme from Freak the Mighty?
Be accepting of everyone
Don't Judge a book by its cover
Overcoming obstacles
What is the difference in a metaphor and a simile?
A simile uses like or as to compare and a metaphor says one thing is the other.
The narrator of a poem
What is the Speaker?
Why do you need to know what the Central idea of a passage is?
To know what the author is trying to tell you.
Name three perspectives that were written in Wonder
Auggie, Jack Will, Via, Summer
Name a book or movie with the Theme: Be careful what you wish for.
Various Answers
Personify a desk chair.
The desk chair ran across the room.
The desk chair creaked loudly when I sat down.
The difference in mood and tone
Mood is how the writing makes you feel vs tone is how the author is feeling.
What is a question you can ask yourself to find out the main idea.
Who or what is the passage about?
What is the author trying to tell me?
Who's Perspective is Freak the Mighty told from?
Max Kane
What are some questions you can ask yourself to figure out theme of a story?
What idea stays with me?
What did the characters learn?
What did I learn?
The repetition of the initial consonant sound
What is Alliteration?
Symbolism in Poetry
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
If the Central Idea is not directly stated, what does the reader need to do?
Infer based on what they read.
What are some examples of things that shape an authors perspective?
Culture, heritage, background, prior knowledge
What is the difference in theme and Main idea?
he theme is the underlying message that the author wants to convey, whereas the main idea is what the story is mostly about.
Two words that are put together for effect but are completely opposite.
What is an Oxymoron?
Allusions in Poetry
Allusions are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.