The Great Gatsby
The setting is mostly
During the 19202 in New York
A person telling the story.
a narrator
True of False: Characters can only be human?
False
What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word
What is an antonym?
When you use details or evidence in a text to draw a conclusion, you
infer it/make an inference
Character who narrates the story
Nick Carraway
In which point of view does the narrator describe "you" and "your' actions?
second person.
How can you figure out what a character's traits are?
By checking what a character is saying, thinking and how the other characters react to him/her
When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?
look for context clues
Some synonyms for inference are:
Read between the lines, make a deduction, a conjecture
Gatsby's first name is...
Jay
Which is the most objective type of narrator?
third person
Descriptive adjectives that tell you what a character is like.
traits
Based on the context clues, in the passage below, olbiterate means? "Please obliterate the blank lines. They were not supposed to be there."
Erase, delete, eliminate
When you read between the lines, you __________________.
What is an educated guess about things that aren't written down?
Who is Gatsby's only love?
Daisy Buchanan
Which point of view uses the pronoun "I"?
first person
Based on the context clues in the passage below, migrate means It was too cold so the birds had to migrate down south.
move away
A girl tells you her cat's name is Grumpy Gus. You might infer that the cat
...is generally in a bad mood
What happened to Gatsby at the end?
He is shot/murdered
A narrator can see and describe every character's thoughts.
third person, omniscient
Victor, Elizabeth, Henry Clerval, Justin, Robert Walton are characters from...
Frankenstein
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated.
synonym
What is true about inference?
A) It is based only on what a text says B) It always turns out to be right C) It requires that you use context clues
C, an inference requires that you use clues