Fiction
What point of view includes the narrator as a character in the story?
1st person point of view
What text structure would most likely be used to show the similarities and differences between two vacation spots?
Compare and contrast
What is direct characterization? Give an example.
When the author tells the reader the character's trait. Example: She is kind.
What is the theme?
Sometimes you have to accept what you have.
What is vinyl?
A plastic fabric; a cheaper alternative to leather.
What is the theme?
The lesson or message of the story.
What is the text structure most often used in history text books?
Chronological or sequential
What is indirect characterization? Give an example.
When the author shows the character's trait rather than just telling the trait. Example: She walked into the room with a smile and loaned a pencil to her friend. "Hello!" she said cheerfully.
What is the climax?
When Gary changes from being frustrated and angry to accepting the jacket. This happens when he throws the jacket over the fence but then goes back to retrieve it.
What is the word that refers to the paralysis that can occur in an arm or a leg, sometimes due to a birth defect.
palsy
What is perspective? How would the perspective of "The Jacket" have been different if the mother had written it?
Perspective is how the narrator feels toward a character, event or the world. If mother had written the story, she would have been happy to have bought the jacket
What text structure would I use to tell you about the new car you should buy?
descriptive
List three character traits Gary shows in "The Jacket."
Disgusted, angry, accepting, and many more!
What genre is "The Jacket?" How do you know?
Memoir; the author is telling about a specific period or event in his life.
The system of writing for blind persons that is made up of bumps.
Braille