Show:
Figurative Language
Rhetoric
Setting/Conflict
Grammar/Writing
Target Lessons
100

What is a simile? 

A comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

100

What is ethos? 

appeal to writer's credibility

100

What is the setting of a writing?

Where the story takes place.

100

What do you do to the first letter in a sentence? 

Capitalize it

100
Text structure: What does the author use to make connections and develop ideas

The title, the previous paragraph, or the sections

200

What is personification? 

When you give an inanimate object human traits/characteristics.
200

What is pathos?

Appeal to the audience's emotions

200

What are the two types of conflict that a character goes through?

Internal and external conflict

200

What are conjunctions called that help you link sentences together to make a compound sentence? 

FANBOYS

200

Unknown Words:  what sentences do you re-read to discover the meaning of an unknown word?

The sentence before it, with the word in it, and the sentence after it

300

What is a hyperbole?

An extreme exaggeration

300

What is logos? 

Appeals to logic (facts/statistics)

300

Plot diagram: the point of highest intensity, and the turning point for the conflict in the text.

The climax
300

How do you properly format an in-text citation? 

(Author's Last Name #).

300

Characterization: What should you pay attention to in order to analyze characterization? 

Feelings, motivations, and their interactions with others

400
Name five types of figurative language

Simile, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, allusion, alliteration, symbolism, irony, paradox

400

What is rhetoric used for? 

To persuade an audience

400

Plot diagram:  The end of the story where the conflict is resolved and all of the loose ends are tied up.

Resolution

400

What are proper sources to use in your writing?

Sources that are relevant to what you are writing, and professional/educational sources (.edu, .gov. etc.)
400

Evidence: What type of evidence can you rule out when looking for good evidence? 

Unrelated evidence and partially correct evidence

500

What are the three types of irony? 

Verbal, situational, and dramatic

500
What is commonly used to help persuade audiences (hint: we read about it last week).

Propoganda

500

What type of conflict is this:  Macie is upset about how her hair is looking today.  She stands in the mirror and cries, because she thinks people are going to make fun of her at school. 

Internal conflict

500

What are the differences between the three "there"s? 

There = location "over there"

Their = ownership "that is theirs"

They're = they + are "they're going to the fair"

500

Author's POV: how do you analyze an author's point of view?

Read the title/first few sentences and analyze the author's anecdotes, word choice, figurative language, and research/stats.