Poetry
A poem’s pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The central message or lesson in a story.
What is the theme?
What is the setting?
What is outdoors, just before a storm?
A word part added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
A complete sentence must have these two things.
What are a subject and a predicate?
When a word imitates a sound (like boom or crash).
What is onomatopoeia?
The author of The Outsiders.
Who is S.E. Hinton?
What point of view is the paragraph written in?
What is third person limited?
The opposite of a synonym.
What is an antonym?
A word that joins clauses or ideas (and, but, or).
What is a conjunction?
A reference to another story, event, or figure.
What is an allusion?
The type of conflict is “man vs. society.”
What is external conflict?
What is the mood of the paragraph?
What is tense or anxious?
Using context to figure out what a word means.
What are context clues?
A sentence with two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or end of words.
What is consonance?
The character who opposes the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
Which sentence shows foreshadowing?
“She knew the storm was coming.”
The part of a word that holds the main meaning.
What is the root?
This type of clause cannot stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
A direct comparison that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
What can the reader infer about Marissa’s feelings?
She is nervous, uncomfortable, and regrets going on the trip.
A more academic word for “very big.”
What is enormous (or gigantic, massive, etc.)?
Fix this run-on: “I love pizza, I eat it every day.”
What is: “I love pizza, and I eat it every day.” (or another correct version)?