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Main Idea
Summary
Figurative Language
Poetry
Text Structure
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What is main idea?
Main idea tells the overall idea of a piece of writing.
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What is included in a summary?
The main idea and important facts and events.
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List 3 types of figurative language.
Possible Answers-simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
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What type of figurative language is mainly used in poetry?
Refrain
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What is a text structure?
A text structure is the way a piece of writing is organized.
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Is the main idea the same as a summary?
No.
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What is NOT included in a summary?
Opinions.
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The act of giving a human like quality to an inanimate object and/or animal is called....
Personification
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Does a poem have to rhyme?
No.
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List three types of text structures.
Possible answers - cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequence, and proposition and support.
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Billy was a sad boy. Nobody liked him. He always got pushed around and beaten by other boys. In particular, there was this big and huge boy who beat Billy a lot. What is the main point of this passage?
Billy was bullied a lot.
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Read the following and Answer the Question. What is the summary? Chirag was having a great Sunday. However, the day ended and suddenly it became Monday, and the journey to the Underworld began. He got into a bus and went down a stone street. He got thrown out of the bus and he walked through the doors. The time was divided into 7 periods plus lunch. First was LA. Chirag was scared. He found a desk and began the long day...
On Monday, Chirag went to the Underworld. He started his day by attending LA.
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On the track, I was as fast as a Gazelle. What type of Figurative Language is that?
It is a simile.
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Read the example and find out it’s Rhyme scheme- There was a guy, His name was Pie, He told a really big lie, So he sat in his room and cried.
The rhyme scheme is A, A, A, A or all the lines rhyme.
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If a piece of writing had many dates in order, what type of text structure would it be?
Sequence.
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What is the Main Idea and Theme of the passage? As the wind howled, a lonely figure stumbled across the white plain. Nobody dared help the figure (they were too scared) and they locked themselves in their houses. One young boy was very curious. He was told not to go near the figure, but he ignored the advice and went near the lonely figure anyway. He was never seen again!
Curiosity kills the cat
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Why should summaries be short?
Because a summary is only a brief main point and not a story.
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What figurative language is used in the following paragraph? I marched onto the fields with my comrades. Our armor glinting in the sun like gold, we set up our makeshift barricades. Our best equivalent to stone walls but still a paltry substitute. Either way it would not matter for the enemy we were facing had up to 1,000,000 soldiers while we had a mesley 240. We had to deal with the fact that we were the losing side. We saw the enemy march on the field. They reminded me of the tales of dragons I heard as a child. They were both strong and large and held with them an air of incomprehensible fear. Their collective shadow fell and writhed on the ground looking like a giant man curled up and dead. Lucky fool, he would not have to witness what comes next. All I heard before the battle was a bang, and then I fought my mind which was on auto pilot. Stab, swing, smash. I felt the bones crunch under my sword. I felt alive and terrified. My whole being was burning and withering, but then I saw a man in black armor charge up. He side stepped my sword and flicked up his own right into my chest and as I died I felt one thought emanate throughout my being - “Why?”.
simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia
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What type of poetry has a 5-7-5 syllable structure?
Haiku
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What kind of Text Structure is this? Rithesh was having a fun summer day. He had gotten a dog and brought it to the beach. He tied him to a pole and got in a long line for ice cream. Later, at sunset, he went back and found the dog had left. A girl had seen the dog and untied him, to save his life. The dog had run off and got caught by a dog catcher.
Cause and Effect
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Why is main idea important?
Because it is a TEK of STAAR.
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What prefix gives away the meaning of summary?
”Sum” is the prefix
500
Name a figurative language we have not talked about in class
Paradox, oxymoron , Synecdoche, Metonymy, Paraphrase, Assonance, Pun, Malapropism, Wordplay, Paronomasia.
500
What is the oldest poem ever?
Epic of Gilgamesh
500
One day, David was walking through a park. He had a fun time and as he walked back home, he saw a monster truck turn on. He jumped in, and rode it all around. Without knowing, he destroyed the town park and half the schools. As a result, the kids had a week free of school!!! However, someone had to pay for the school. That was a problem for David. He made a lemonade stand and made lots of money. He gave it to the schools so they could be rebuilt. What two Text Structures were used?
Cause and Effect and Problem and Solution.