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Poetry
Folk Tales
Non Fiction
Drawing Conclusions
Vocabulary
100
This is the word for a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
This type of folk tale usually has gods or goddesses with a human flaw, and explains a mystery of the universe.
What is MYTH?
100
Photographs, pictures, graphs, maps, and captions are all examples of this.
What is a graphic aid?
100
This is how you make an inference (the two things you need).
What are background knowledge/experience and evidence (text evidence)?
100
This means to speak out against something.
What is DENOUNCE?
200
This is the term used to describe the giving of human qualities
What is personification?
200
"Nevertheless, she vowed that she would make Kim understand the value of a brother, even a poor and lazy brother like De." - from "The Beggar in the Blanket"
What is an example of a theme of the value of family.
200
These are the three different places you can find the main idea of a section of non fiction text.
What is the abstract, subheading, or first sentence?
200
These are the two things you need to learn before you can draw conclusions.
What are cause and effect and inferences?
200
This is an example of a word starting with the prefix, "En-".
What is...enumerate, enable, encapsulate, enrage?
300
This is the term used for the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
300
"He scratched the chipmunk's back so deeply that even today chipmunks have stripes on their backs." - from "How Day and Night Came". This is an example of a human flaw in the bear.
What is the human flaw of envy?
300
Woodsong was this kind of nonfiction.
What is a memoir?
300
Eddie didnʼt know what to do. He was completely lost. He couldnʼt understand the street signs because he couldnʼt read French, and the streets were dark and deserted. Even if he could find somebody to ask directions, would that person speak English? Eddie doubted it. He wiped the sweat off his brow for what seemed like the fiftieth time. How could people take this heat all year-round? he wondered. (inference about the setting)
What is France, hot, at night?
300
Overnight, someone had put up a GIGANTIC AND VERY UNATTRACTIVE billboard across the street.
What is MONSTROUS?
400
This is the term used to describe how the author or poet feels about a subject
What is TONE?
400
This is the human flaw that the elephant, lion, and bear represented in the folktale, "The Leopard's Noisy Drum."
What is greed?
400
This is what the supporting details will ALWAYS add up to.
What is the MAIN IDEA?
400
Dorothea Lange: "She was committed to helping people in trouble. . . . That is why her pictures are called DOCUMENTARY, a word that comes from the Latin root docere, meaning “to teach.”"- This is what documentary means in this context.
What is shown to people in order to teach?
400
This is the meaning of the prefixes, "il-", "dis-", "non-", and "de."
What is not or negative of?
500
"The tree crashes downward: it shakes all its neighbours through-out,"
What is an example of personification?
500
These are the character traits that the king and the bee represented.
What is helpfulness and wisdom?
500
Dorothea became passionate about helping people during the Great Depression, when one out of four Americans lost a job. She had a portrait business in San Francisco then, but outside her window she saw unemployed men lined up for free food. She thought these men were tremendously brave as they endured circumstances they could not control. She had to capture their feelings. (MAIN IDEA)
What is Dorothea becoming passionate about helping people during the Depression?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!
HERE'S THE QUESTION...
500
"A year later, Dorothea exhibited her photographs publicly for the first time. Her show surprised people. They were not used to seeing photographs of social problems that PROVOKED such strong emotions." This is the meaning of the word, provoked, in this context.
What is created?