Reading
The moral or lesson of a text.
What is Theme?
What you are going to prove in a essay.
What is a claim or a thesis statement?
Slick hair, bad attitude, leather jacket, white tee, and blue jeans...
Loves sunsets, and watching the stars, loves movies and reading.
Who is Ponyboy?
Gavin, Sam, Jackson, and Sydney.
What are the names of Mrs. Teague's kids?
The author's attitude about a character, setting, or topic.
What is Tone?
Proof that your claim in correct.
What is evidence?
Mustangs and corvairs, west-side hipsters...
Three large rings were on his fingers, he drove a blue mustang.
Who was Bob the Soc?
Mr. Hall's alter-ego.
Who is Batman?
two disparate things compared to each other using "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
Expanding your thoughts on an idea or topic in your essay or the addition of more detail concerning what has already been said.
What is elaboration?
His eyes were like ice, built like a linebacker, and works way too much that he can't hang with the gang.
Who is Darry?
Poem Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay. Written by....
Robert Frost
NYU is my almamater.
Who is Mrs. Goosby?
Dialogue, motifs, description, setting, symbolism....
What are types of author's craft moves?
How the information within a written text is organized.
What is text structure?
Always quiet, a nervous disposition, easily frightened with two horrid parents.
Who is Johnny?
(He) hated to do things the legal way. He liked to show that he didn't care whether there was a law or not. He went around trying to break laws.
Who is Dallas Winston?
The tree that New Haven is known for.
What is Elm?
Giving a hint of something to come later in a story.
What is foreshadow?
Table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams.
What are text features?
Who said: "Things are rough all over?"
Cherry Valance
The DX Station
Both an instrument and the mayor of a major city.
What is the harp?