Name That Title
A small town holds an annual drawing that seems like a community tradition. The winner, Tessie Hutchinson, is stoned by the townspeople, revealing the story’s shocking violence and the danger of blindly following tradition.
The Lottery
CONJUNCTION
An author building tension, anxiety, or anticipation in a text.
SUSPENSE
bad luck, unfortunate event
A style of writing meant to teach you something.
INFORMATIVE
Mathilde Loisel, who longs for a richer life, borrows a sparkling necklace to wear to a fancy event but loses it afterward. She and her husband spend years paying for a replacement, only to learn that the original necklace was imitation jewelry.
The Necklace
An author leaving clues for the reader to follow about future events.
FORESHADOWING
Identifying traits about a character based on things they say, do, think, act, or how they make people feel.
CHARACTERIZATION
A style of writing that is meant to be personal, to recount an event or an experience.
NARRATIVE
Robert Proctor takes a driving test that uses hypnosis to make him believe he has survived a car crash, a simulation designed to frighten him away from driving. When he still chooses to get a license, officials take him away, judging his willingness to drive a danger to society.
Test
A word that demonstrates the relationships that nouns have with other words in a sentence.
PREPOSITIONS
An internal or external disagreement for the character.
CONFLICT
simple or unimpressive.
A style of writing that is meant to persuade you to take one side of a controversial topic.
ARGUMENTATIVE
Leonard Mead enjoys walking alone through a quiet, future city where nearly everyone stays indoors watching television. The police arrest him because his solitary walks seem suspicious, revealing a society that distrusts individuality and human connection.
The Pedestrian
A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
PRONOUN
The act of fitting in, to be like everyone else.
Looking closely at a piece of literature/text to break down the themes and ideas inside of it, support it with text evidence.
Analytical/Text Analysis
A group of children discover a man trapped in a well, but they talk to and tease him instead of getting help. As they keep his situation secret and leave him behind, the story raises questions about empathy, responsibility, and moral courage.
The Man in the Well
A word that comes before an exclamation point (!) to demonstrate excitement, disgust, or anger.
INTERJECTION
The underlying message or lesson about life or society that the reader is consistently returning to throughout the text.
THEME
using touch, taste, sound, smell, or sight to vividly describe elements of the text.
Which styles of writing will be on the English Regent?
Argumentative and Analytical