Fiction
What is the problem of a story called?
Conflict
What is the most important point that an author makes about a topic called?
a main/central idea
In the word "invisible," this prefix is added to the root word to change the meaning to "not able to be seen." What is the prefix?
in-
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem
When asked to write an essay on RICAS, how many paragraphs should you be writing?
5 paragraphs
What is plot?
the events of the story
What is it called when you make an educated guess based on prior knowledge and textual evidence?
Derived from the Latin root dict, this word describes a resource used to look up the way a word is "spoken" or defined. What is it?
a Dictionary
What type of figurative language is this: "The wind howled through the trees like a lonely wolf"?
Simile
What needs to be in the citation at the end of a quote from the text?
(Author's Last Name & Paragraph/page number)
What is the turning point of the story and where the most drama/action occurs called?
The Climax
What is a claim?
a statement expressing a main idea of an argument.
In the sentence, "The heavy rain caused the river to undulate, with waves rising and falling in a steady rhythm," which phrase provides a definition clue for the word "undulate."
"rising and falling"
What is a regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry called?
a Meter
What should start off your introduction paragraph? It could take the form of a question, quote, scenario, etc.
A hook
What is theme?
The overall moral or lesson of the story
What is the author's voice or attitude about what he/she writes called?
Tone
Read the following two sentences: Which word carries a negative connotation, implying the group is out of control or dangerous.
The group of protesters was a crowd.
The group of protesters was a mob.
Mob
What is the feeling a reader gets a text called?
Mood
What must you include when you are moving from one paragraph to another or one thought to another?
Transition words/ phrases
What do we call the character's thoughts, feeling, personality, and opinions?
Characterization
What does delineate mean?
To track or outline the writer's argument
In the sentence, "The ancient ruins were precarious; the loose stones and crumbling walls looked like they might collapse at any second," which two descriptors explain the meaning of "precarious"?
"loose stones" and "crumbling walls"
In the opening chapter of a story, the author describes a dark, gathering storm on the horizon and a character ignores a warning sign on a closed road. These two details are used by the author to achieve what type of figurative language?
Foreshadowing
What is a thesis statement?
What you will prove, and how you will prove it
Your answer to the question
Your main argument/claim