Literary
The central idea or message of a work of literature is its ________. (It should not be expressed as a one- or two-word cliche.)
What is theme?
Person vs. self is internal conflict. What is one example of EXTERNAL conflict?
Answers will vary. What is person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. technology, person vs. supernatural?
The main character in the story. The action of the story revolves around this character and the conflict he/she/they faces.
Who is the protagonist?
An introduction paragraph in an informational/expository essay consists of what three parts?
What is a hook, background information, and a thesis statement?
In persuasive writing, it is how an author FEELS about the TOPIC. It is the author’s OPINIONS and beliefs about the written topic. (The answer is not tone.)
What is viewpoint or perspective?
The qualities that a character has, usually revealed through his/her/their thoughts, dialogue, and actions
What are character traits?
True or false:Writers often reveal the theme through the experiences of the character.
What is true?
These types of characters are complex and multidimensional. They have many different traits and are much like real people with several sides to their personality. Kenny and Byron Watson are both examples of this type of character.
What is a round character?
Which of these statements about the purpose of a thesis is untrue:
A. It puts your main ideas into one summary
sentence.
B. It helps YOU better organize and develop your
essay.
C. It should be a statement of fact that everyone
agrees on.
D. It provides your READER with a “guide” or
"roadmap" to your writing.
What is C?
One way authors show viewpoint is through connotation. Define connotation.
What is the feeling and emotion a word might stir in a reader? This feeling might be positive, negative, or neutral.
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
Explain the difference between a memoir and an autobiography.
What is: An autobiography is the story of a person’s life by that person. Memoirs focus on specific events or periods that are meaningful to the author. Memoirs can rely on the author’s diaries, notes, recordings, memories, and outside sources; they can include the author’s opinions, and impressions of the events discussed.
In terms of character development, this type of character remains the same throughout the entire story.
What is a static character?
There are many different organizational structures for expository/informational writing. Give one example.
Answers will vary. What is description, classification, cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, process/how-to, listing/enumeration?
Explain the difference between objective and subjective.
What is objective writing contains only facts, while subjective writing contains a mixture of facts and opinions?
When the author does not tell us directly what a character is like and so we as readers must infer what the character is like through the character’s appearance, thoughts, actions, speech, and other characters’ reactions to that particular person. (I am not looking for point of view here.)
What is indirect characterization?
In the excerpt from Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris, this is an example of what: "The river whispered, 'Get ready.'"
What is personification?
The part of the plot where characters are introduced
What is the exposition?
Name two examples of reliable sources.
Answers will vary. What are government websites, education websites, some .orgs (organizations), textbooks, reference books, newspapers, experts in a field, etc.? NOT WIKIPEDIA!!!!
Name and define the three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos (appeal to authority/credibility), pathos (appeal to emotion), and logos (appeal to logic)?
What type of characterization is this?
“JB and I are almost thirteen. Twins. Two basketball goals at opposite ends of the court. Identical. It’s easy to tell us apart, though. I’m an inch taller, with dreads to my neck. He gets his head shaved once a month.”
What is direct characterization?
Name the two types of figurative language that deal with comparisons, and explain their differences.
What are simile and metaphor? What is a similie is a comparison that uses "like" or "as," and a metaphor implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing IS another.
Sometimes, a protagonist lacks traditional heroic qualities, often exhibiting flaws, moral ambiguity, or even immoral behavior, yet the reader still feels some level of sympathy or understanding for them. Deadpool is an example.
What is an antihero?
Name the four different components of the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.
What are restate, answer, cite, and explain?
What is bias?
What is an inclination for or against a particular opinion?