Justify Your Claim (RL.9-10.1)
The act of using evidence to back up a statement, also known as proving your case.
What is support or substantiation?
The broad subject that the literary work is about, which is not the same as the theme.
What is the topic (or subject)?
The technique of using words that sound like their meaning, such as "buzz" or "hiss."
What is onomatopoeia?
The established sequence of events: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot structure (or narrative arc)?
The perspective used when the narrator is an observer and knows all the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
The difference between an accurate and an adequate piece of textual evidence.
What is that adequate evidence is sufficient in amount, but accurate evidence is precisely correct and relevant?
A concise restatement of the plot that includes the main events in correct order.
What is an objective summary?
What figurative language is being expressed in the sentence "The fire station burned down last night"?
What is Irony
A brief reference within a text to a well-known person, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
"I couldn’t believe my luck when I found the missing journal tucked beneath my bed." is an example of which perspective?
What is 1st first-person perspective
The reasoning that explains how the textual evidence logically supports the central claim.
What is warrant (or analysis or commentary)?
Which theme is best illustrated by the sentence: 'Even when things got tough, Maya never gave up on her dream of becoming a doctor'?
What is Perseverance leads to success
A word or phrase with a double meaning, where one meaning is usually sexual or humorous.
What is a pun?
"What is the name of the structural technique authors use to reveal future events at the start of a story?"
What is flashforward
What is the P.O.V for this passage, "Jordan paced the length of the quiet hallway, his fingers tapping nervously against his thigh. He hadn’t expected the interview to rattle him, but now the weight of every word lingered in his mind. Outside, the wind tugged at the trees, indifferent to his unease."
What is third-person perspective
The term for an inference that is reasonable but ultimately unsupported by the available text
What is a fallacy (or an unsupported or weak inference)?
The literary technique of using a concrete object or idea to stand for a more complex, abstract one.
What is symbolism?
"The golden sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky in streaks of crimson and lavender as the wind whispered through the tall grass."
What is Imagery
"Which structural element of a narrative follows the climax and reveals how the central conflict is resolved or transformed?"
What is the resolution
The comparison of two different first-person accounts of the same event to analyze how perspective alters truth.
What is the analysis of bias (or the subjectivity of truth)?
This is the rigor required for evidence when arguing that a character's motivation changes over the course of a text.
What is sufficient, compelling evidence from multiple points in the text?
To argue that a theme is universal, you must argue that a theme is in reference to universal truths, while a topic is specific to a text and what it is about.
What is True
The following statement, "She spilled the beans about the surprise party," is an example of...
What is an idiom
"Which moment in a narrative most clearly represents the turning point where the protagonist faces their greatest challenge, and the outcome of the central conflict begins to unfold?"
What is the Climax
The analysis of how an author from a different cultural experience uses local customs or dialect to frame their perspective.
What is the impact of cultural context on the perspective?