Typhoid Fever
What is the name of the main character in "Typhoid Fever"?
Frank, or Francis
T/F This a simple sentence: The cat and the dog ran and rolled around in the yard.
True.
A compound sentence contains 2 ___________ clauses. Fill in the blank
independent
A complex sentence has an _________ clause and a ______ clause.
independent and dependent
A comparison between two unlike things that doesn't use the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
What is the name of the other patient whom the main character befriends in the hospital ward?
Patricia
How does one punctuate the title of a short story when typing an essay?
Capitalized and in quotes
True or False This is a compound sentence: Jody and Steve ate ice cream.
False -- It's a simple sentence.
What point of view is an autobiography likely to be written in?
First Person
A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
What is the name of the author of "Typhoid Fever"?
Frank McCourt
Do simple sentences have conjunctions?
No.
"I dropped my left AirPod between the front seats."
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?
between the front seats
What is the dependent clause in the sentence?
While we are learning to jump rope, they are learning to juggle.
While we are learning to jump rope
Making a comparison between something and a well-known person, place, art, character, etc.
ex. "When it came to self-discipline, she was a total Jedi."
What is an allusion?
Give two examples of conflict in the story, with the form _________vs.__________
Person vs. disease
Person vs. mortality
Patients, Seamus vs. nurses, authority
person vs. the supernatural
etc.
How does one punctuate the title of a novel when referring to it in a typed essay?
Capitalized and italicized
extra credit: how about when your essay is handwritten?
Geoffrey Tiny Legs' favorite activity is swimming in the sink.
What is the infinitive phrase using the verb in the above sentence?
to swim
What does "omniscient" mean?
all-knowing
If a story is told in third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story, but can see into the minds of all the characters.
Giving humanlike characteristics to unhuman things.
e.g. "The morning crept up on her"
What is personification?
When the main character is moved to the upstairs ward, whose ghosts does he imagine are haunting him, and what detail of these ghosts' appearance does he remark upon?
They are the ghosts of starved children from the Great Famine/Potato Famine, and they have green stains around their mouths from eating grass.
What is the difference between the third-person omniscient and third-person objective points of view?
In third-person omniscient, the narrator can see into the minds of the characters, but in third-person objective the narrator's perspective is limited to what a bystander could see or hear.
Helping someone without expecting anything in return is an example of what "ism"?
altruism
Name 5 subordinating conjunctions
after, because, before, while, unless, even though, until, although, if, so that, whenever, when, as long as, in order that
How do you tell the difference between the subject of a sentence and other nouns which the sentence may contain?
The subject is performing the action in the sentence.
(subject-verb relationship)