"His wit is like a knife in how cutting it is"
SIMILE
"The Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground."
UNDERSTATEMENT
The point in the story when the story's protagonist makes a final attempt at solving the story's main problem.
CLIMAX
This can be defined as the TIME & PLACE of the action/events of a story.
SETTING
The message or lesson that an author is hoping the reader will recognize in a story.
THEME
Story's protagonist
JONAS
She looks like she has seen a ghost; she's "as white as a sheet." (NOT "simile" even though it is one.)
IDIOM
Making DIRECT comparisons between two things that are usually considered dissimilar (not alike).
METAPHOR
In lower grades, the section of a story that includes a series of events that builds tension/suspense and leads to the point in the story where the main character must make a final attempt at solving the story's conflict?
RISING ACTION
The portion of the story where the author provides basic information (an introduction to) regarding setting, characters, and conflict.
EXPOSITION
"It must have been the way I was lying..." makes use of what literary technique that we have learned about? (Hint: The word LYING has two very different meanings)
PUN
Location where Jonas was to receive his training
ANNEX
His friend is such a piece of trash.
METAPHOR
An INDIRECT comparison made between two things that are typically dissimilar (not alike).
SIMILE
An example of this term would be:
CHARACTER vs. SELF
(TWO words make up the answer)
INTERNAL CONFLICT
The role/part of a story that ERNIE plays in the event where Harris tries to re-enact the Tarzan swing.
ANTAGONIST
When an author references something that he/she feels the reader will already be familiar with as a way to explain something in his/her own story.
ALLUSION
The memory given in the book to help Jonas understand the concept of COLOR
RAINBOW
Mom has made this recipe a million times this year.
HYPERBOLE
The act of giving non-human objects/characters human traits and/or behaviors.
PERSONIFICATION
The "results" of the main character's final attempt to solve the story's main problem
RESOLUTION
As is relates to the most dominant THEME present in HARRIS AND ME, who/what acts as the story's ANTAGONIST. (Think this one through before answering.)
ME'S PARENTS
Whenever an author includes details or event that at the time they first appear in a story do not seem to have much importance but that later DO figure in important ways.
FORESHADOWING
The last line of the book mentions that "perhaps it was just an echo." What was it that Jonas thought he might be hearing but perhaps was just an echo?... MUST BE SPECIFIC AND COMPLETE.
MUSIC COMING FROM JONAS'S OLD COMMUNITY
The leaves beckoned me with their song to walk among the trees.
PERSONIFICATION
ANY use of language/wording that has meaning for the reader BUT whose meaning is different than that contained in a dictionary for the words used.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
The character/force that either initiates a problem OR adds to/continues a problem.
ANTAGONIST
What type of CHARACTERS (of the type we have learned) would KNUTE, CLAIR, and LOUIE be considered?
IMPORTANT SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
The term given to a general classification for a piece of text. i.e. Realistic Fiction or Biography
GENRE
Explain what would be IRONIC for a community such as Jonas's with regard to releasing one twin only if the twin was an identical one.
FOR A COMMUNITY THAT STRIVES TO MAKE EVERYONE/EVERYTHING THE "SAME" (SAMENESS), IT GOES AGAINST THAT PRINCIPLE TO RELEASE (KILL/GET RID OF) SOMEONE FOR BEING TOO MUCH THE SAME AS ANOTHER.
Which words of a TITLE must ALWAYS be capitalized?
FIRST and LAST
Two or more INDEPENDENT CLAUSES that have been incorrectly joined together is known by what term?
RUN-ON
IDENTIFY the SIMPLE SUBJECT of the following:
"Let the water boil for 5 full minutes before adding the tea bags."
YOU (Understood)
Identify ALL of the 23 Helping Verbs ("magic" words) that appear in the following sentence. If there are none, say "NONE."
Will you be visiting your sister this summer, or is she coming here to stay for a while?
WILL, BE, IS
IDENTIFY ANY mistakes in the following sentence:
"They're going to give there very best on their semester test that they will be taking over there."
"give THEIR very best"
What is the name for the TYPE of sentence that the following is an example of:
"Zac, please have a seat and wait for further instructions."
IMPERATIVE