How do you feel about that?
What is positive
Place and time of the story
What is setting.
The person who writes the story is called?
What is the author.
This type of writing can be therapeutic and personal.
What is journaling.
Sometimes called "marking the text" this activity helps readers engage with the text.
What is annotation.
A character is described as sensitive rather than thick-skinned.
What is negative.
A tension or struggle between two opposing ideas or sides.
What is conflict.
The story is sometimes told by a character using the pronoun "I." This is called a certain type of point of view.
What is first person point of view.
This type of writing uses stanzas, figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and sometime rhyme.
What is poetry.
True or False?
It's best to keep your comments just to one focus when demonstrating your comprehension of a writing.
What is false.
Writers sometimes choose a word that has a connotation that isn't positive or negative.
What is neutral.
An author's message about a subject or an underlying meaning of a text.
What is theme.
Sometimes stories are told by the writer using this point of view which is identified by the pronouns "he" and "she" or "they."
What is third person point of view.
Sometimes called a pared-down short story, this type of writing focuses on a specific moment using between 500-1500 words.
What is flash fiction.
While reading Flash Fiction in class, we used highlighting for sentences pointing to literary devices and underlying for author's tone. What did circling words and phrases indicate?
What is unknown words or words/phrases we questioned.
You are on sabbatical rather than on leave from your job.
What is positive.
Sometimes these people can be major or minor in the story. There is always a protagonist and antagonist.
The third person point of view has two types: One allows the narrator to be all knowing and see into the thinking of ALL the characters. Where the other type allows the narrator to focus on one character's inner thoughts.
What is third person limited point of view.
The type of writing that tells a story but includes the details that answers the 5 W's (who? what? where? when? and why?) can be found on page 98 of the Writers Inc. text.
What is narrative writing.
In this example "Joey says, just what his father would say" was highlighted, the comment on the page should focus on which literary device - setting, character, or theme?
What is character.
Bucking Bill's slim outline was a contrast to the bull's bulkiness. Here the connotation for slim would be?
What is neutral.
In "Toasters" by Pamela Painter, Joey's mother struggled with telling her son the truth about his parent's relationship. This is not just a conflict, but which type of a conflict?
What is internal conflict.
Storytellers, poets, and song writers create the piece of writing; however, within the text there can be this voice who tells the story. This voice is identified as the...?
What is the speaker or narrator.
While persuasive paragraphs express an opinion and try to convince the reader that opinion is valid, this type of writing presents evidence from the text while breaking up the text into smaller pieces. For example, K.C. Horn's "The Kiss" evoked a positive theme because of the sentence "I don't change my mind...all I know is that I like the feeling."
What is analysis writing.
These words, "pre-apocalyptic condemnation," were circled because they needed to be defined. What was the definition?
What is before the end disapproval or what is the beginning of an unwanted end.