Literary Text
What is the setting of a story?
When and where a story takes place.
What is the meaning of comparing and contrasting?
Compare: Information that is the same.
Contrast: Information that is different.
What is repetition in a story?
When a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated.
What is Ms. Bailey's first name?
Katherine / Katie
What is the author's purpose?
To inform, to persuade, to entertain
What is the author's purpose in an inforamational text?
To inform.
What are the three types of figurative language we have discussed in class?
Simile, metaphor, personification
How old is Ms. Bailey
24
What is the theme of a story?
the main message, lesson or moral of the text.
What is the meaning of a subheading?
To organize information and guide the reader by showing what each section is about.
What is a simile?
Comparison of two different things using like or as.
Example: Like two peas in a pod
What brainrot character does Ms. Bailey have on a t-shirt?
Tung Tung Tung Sahur
Name the 5 elements of a plot, in order.
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is a summary?
A short writing focusing on the texts main points and key details.
What is a metaphor?
Comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as.
Example: The students were tornadoes at recess.
What is Ms. Bailey's dog's name?
Luna
What is the central idea of a story?
The main message the author wants the reader to understand from the story.
Read the sentence: "The old bicycle leaned against the garage wall, a skeleton of rusted metal and flat tires."
How does the author’s choice of the word "skeleton" change the way you think about the bicycle?
The word "skeleton" contributes to the meaning by suggesting that the bicycle is "dead" or no longer functional.
Instead of just being "old," the metaphor compares the bike to bones, implying that all the "life" (the speed, the movement, and the fun) is gone.
What is an idiom?
the overall meaning is different from the literal meaning of its individual words
Example: Break a leg!
When is Ms. Bailey's birthday?
BONUS if you know the year.
March 19, 2001