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Jane's curiosity turned to amazement when she saw Mr. Baxter march across the lawn, right up to the front of the yellow house. He took hammer and nails from his overall pocket and a sign from under his arm.
What point of view is this?
Third person
The author uses descriptive words like "crisp," "sharp," and "brittle" to describe autumn leaves. What effect does this word choice have on the writing?
The adjectives help create a picture of the leaves
What is the resolution of a story?
The end of a story where all loose ends are tied up
There is a type of bug called a termites.
What change should be made in sentence 1?
a. Change type to tipe
b. Change of to for
c. Change called to call
d. Change termites to termite
Change termites to termite
You see, Mom had bought Harry and Vi Marshall a potted plant to apologize for my bike tracks in their new driveway. She and Dad were withholding my allowance until the plant was paid for. I knew that there was no point in asking
them for the money.
What is the meaning of the word withholding in this paragraph?
A. Increasing in amount
B. Punishing harshly
C. Refusing to give
D. Using as one’s property
Refusing to give
If you are comparing two or more things, what are you doing?
Finding the similarities
Define "first-person point of view" and give one clue that tells you a story is told in first person.
When the story is told from the character's own perspective in the book and it uses the word "I" "we" "us"
What is the prefix in the word "submarine?"
Sub
This means that the person uses correct emotion to read aloud, pauses for periods and commas, but emphasizes important words.
Which word should replace "but"?
Nor, or, and, yet
This part of the brain also brings thoughts, and feelings together.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
A. Insert it after brain
B. Change brings to brang
C. Delete the comma after thoughts
D. Change feelings to fealings
Delete the comma after thoughts
A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted. By the time the apples began to grew ripe, it was found that every night, one of them was gone.
What prediction can be made about the king’s reaction to the missing apples?
a.The king will not mind that the apples are missing.
b.The king will not notice that the apples are missing.
c.The king will become angry that his apples are missing.
d.The king will decide to cut down all of his apple trees.
He will become angry
What is third person point of view?
When the story is told from outside of any characters perception
"They say that after that El-ahrairah wandered far and wide, and everywhere he went he gave the animals and birds good advice and help."
Spell the plural version of the word berry?
Berries
What change is needed in this sentence?
It is known as the prefrontal cortex, or PFC, and it lies right behind a persons face.
A. Change known to knew
B. Delete and
C. Change lies to lying
D. Change persons to person's
persons to person's
How could we fix this sentence?
Drew washed the tomatoes, she chopped them.
Add the conjunction and
Protagonist
What is the most important part of the story called?
Climax
She yelled I can't believe you did that!
Where do the quotation marks go?
before I and after the exclamation point
This is apart of author’s craft, and it is used to help bring the writing to life. This could be exaggeration, comparing things using like/as, or sound words.
a. Point of View
b. Author's Purpose
c. Static Character
d. Figurative Language
Figurative Language
The queen bee can use her stinger to save the hive from another queen. The queen bee lays all of the hive's eggs. The queen bee sends messages to other bees in the hive.
What is the main idea?
The Queen Bee is an important part of the hive
The Town Mouse ate very sparingly, nibbling a little of this and a little of that, and by her manner making it very plane that she ate the simple food only to be polite.
What change should be made in sentence 3?
a.Change ate to eight
b.Change by to buy
c.Change plane to plain
d. Change the period to a question mark
Plane to plain