Character
Theme
Author's Purpose
Summary
Miscellaneous
100
This is the way a writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
100
Theme would be defined as this.
What is a truth or message an author reveals about life?
100
Author's purpose would be defined as this.
What is his/her reason for writing something?
100
The main purpose of a summary is to do this.
What is explain what happens in a story?
100
This is another word for an educated guess or prediction.
What is an inference?
200
A biased treatment of a subject is this.
What is one-sided and unbalanced?
200
Analyzing what characters have _____________ can help determine theme.
What is learned?
200
This is the term used to describe an author's opinions and views.
What is point of view?
200
Summaries are meant to capture these events.
What is the main or most important?
200
An inference can be made when these two things are taken into consideration.
What is the text and background knowledge.
300
Character motivation can be defined as this.
What is reasons for a character's actions?
300
Love conquers all, and treat others as you'd want to be treated are examples of this type of theme.
What is a reoccuring theme?
300
When author's try to convince their readers of something, there purpose is to do this.
What is persuade?
300
T/F - It is important to know how to write a good summary.
What is TRUE? :)
300
"Emily was tall and beautiful. She was lucky. Most girls this age worried about braces and glasses." This is an example of this type of characterization.
What is direct?
400
This is the difference between direct and indirect characterization.
What is direct characterization tells what a character is like; indirect characterization shows what a character is like?
400
To determine theme, one could look at these three elements.
What is character, setting, conflict.
400
When an author teaches non-fiction and just states facts, this would be the author's purpose.
What is inform?
400
Summaries should include the author's ideas, but your own what?
What is words?
400
This is the difference between a summary and a theme.
What is a summary explains the main events; a theme explains the lesson learned?
500
These are the five examples of indirect characterization.
What is appearance, actions, speech, thoughts/feelings, and other characters' reactions?
500
Some themes appear in literary works for several ages because of this reason.
What is some statements about the human experience are universal.
500
When in author is writing to merely hold their readers' attention through enjoyment, this would be the author's purpose.
What is entertain?
500
Besides the main ideas, a good summary should always include this, usually found towards the beginning.
What is title and author of the text?
500
The name of your favorite Literature teacher is this.
What is Miss Risse? :)