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Sonnet
Plot Diagram
Writing / Grammar
Reading Comprehension
100
How does an author establish mood?
Striking imagery.
100
Name the most popular sonnet?
Shakespearean sonnet.
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where your story takes place.
100
What is active voice?
The subject of the sentences performs an action.
100
How do you determine the tone in the story?
Use the author and the words. It is how the author wants you to feel.
200
What is imagery?
Appeals to the five senses and paints a picture.
200
How many lines are included in a Shakespearean sonnet?
14
200
How do you determine the main conflict?
You examine the character.
200
Where is the attention grabber located.
The first line of your introduction.
200
What is an inference?
A guess based on the text and what the author wants you to know.
300
Personification.
Give a non-human thing/object human qualities.
300
Name an example of a sonnet read in class.
My City
300
What trait does the character Johanna exhibit?
The inability to ignore small details.
300
What is the function of a gerund?
The gerund ends in ing and works as a noun.
300
What is author's purpose of telling stories of a funning away child is to? (From How Reading Changed My Life..."
To illustrate her restless nature.
400
What is diction?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
400
What should happen at the end of a sonnet?
A conclusion/resolve.
400
From the story "Texts" which words best describes the author's tone in the story?
Romantic
400
Change this sentence to be more descriptive using a gerund: He dislikes the modern life.
He dislikes living in the modern world
400
How do you determine the main idea in specific lines of a story?
You must examine the lines and make an assumption based on the text.
500
What is a metaphor.
Comparison between two things not using like or as.
500
How could you spot a sonnet if it is not labeled?
Check on the line count.
500
How is a conflict resolved?
The character resolves his/her problem.
500
Name three transition words.
Answers will vary.
500
What do you learn from the thesis of an essay?
The main idea of the whole paper.