Lesson 1
A story
What is a narrative?
What the text is mostly about.
What is gist?
Perspective
What is point of view?
Not able to comprehend.
What is unfathomable?
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
To make or become new and different
What is modernize?
To find out.
What is to determine?
Not known
What is unfamiliar?
Badly damaged
What is blighted?
Giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics.
What is personification?
To make an educated guess based on the information given.
What is infer?
To notice when others are sad or upset and try to help them.
What is compassion?
Indicate who or what something is.
What is identify?
In the middle of
What is midst?
Use of exaggeration to emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?
A traditional story dealing with a superhuman being or legendary heroes that seeks to explain the origin of the world.
What is myth?
To understand and share the feelings, situation, or attitude of others.
What is empathy?
A plan or method for achieving a goal or objective.
What are strategies?
Long and slender legs
What is coltish?
A play on words.
What is pun?
The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through generations by word of mouth.
What is folklore?
Passed down and unwritten; ritual
What is traditional?
A change which is the result of an or cause.
What is effect?
Suddenly and forcefully
What is spurted?
Using language that means the opposite of what you mean for humor or dramatic effect.
What is verbal irony?