WTD: What's The Device?
He is as strong as an ox.
What is a simile?
The main point of an argument.
What is a claim?
Hurricane Katrina caused a great CATACLYSM - New Orleans was a disaster.
Using context clues, what does CATACLYSM mean?
What is disaster?
The start of the story.
Protagonist
Fits like a glove.
What is a simile
What is used to convince the audience that the claim is true
What is evidence?
The lead dog was so INCOMPETENT that he had to be replaced by one that was more useful to the pack.
Using context clues, what does the word INCOMPETENT mean?
What is useless, stupid
Where the action starts.
What is the call of adventure?
The friends of the main character.
What are the allies?
Laughter is the best medicine.
What is a metaphor?
Connects the evidence to the claim.
What is reasoning?
The student in Ms. Scott's Math class ASPIRES, or aims to achieve, spending the next four years at Harvard University.
Using context clues, what does ASPIRE mean?
aims to achieve
The height or turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
A protagonist who does the right thing the wrong way.
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
Support for the claim
What is evidence?
There are many speculations, or theories, about what made the Ice Ages happen.
Using context clues, what does speculations mean?
theories or beliefs
The falling action of the story after the climax and the character heads on home.
What is a denouement?
Describing taste, touch, smell, sound, and sight.
What is imagery?
Using a quote from the text.
What is evidence?
Mrs. Green explained to her math class how fractions divide a whole into different parts. Anthony, as a good math student, CLEAVED the pie chart into eight pieces.
Using context clues, what does CLEAVED mean?
to cut into parts
Introduces background information to the reader.
Also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting represent such universal patterns of human nature...basically, shapes all of the characters.
What is an archetype?