Unit 1 Grammar
What type of sentence is this?
Interrogative
What was the major theme of our literature unit?
Love
Which tense is this?
I eat cereal every morning.
Present
What is a thesis?
A thesis is an argument being posed that the paper centers on
What is audience?
The people that an author speaks or writes to
Identify the italicized word as either a subject or a predicate.
Vanderbilt obtained a lot of money.
Subject
How did the fight in Amigo Brothers end?
They both left before the winner was announced
Which tense is this?
Yesterday I ate chicken nuggets and they were good.
Past tense
What is the plot?
What happens in the story
What is foreshadowing?
Hints at an event that will occur later in the story
What type of sentence is this?
You will drive to Arkansas.
Imperative
What is an quatrain?
Poetry term to describe a four line stanza
What is the difference between an action verb and a state of being verb?
Action verbs tell what someone did or does and state of being tells us what something is
What is the difference between internal and external conflict?
Internal happens within a character, external happens outside of the characters
What is dialogue?
Conversation between characters, or internally in one's head
What is an interjection?
An exclamation that is not necessary to the sentence
What was the foreshadowing in The Scarlet Ibis?
Doodle was going to pass away, seen in the tombstone comment and the coffin
What is a linking verb?
Subject of a sentence to a word that renames or describes the subject
What is third person limited point of view?
Narrator only has access to one character's point of view
What is the difference between direct characterization and indirect characterization?
Direct is what the author tells us, indirect is found out through the story
What kind of conjunction is found in pairs?
Correlative
What happens in Wonder?
Auggie gets treated differently because of his looks, creation of the plague, then Summer sits with him and they become friends, etc.
What are the main types of tenses?
Present tense, past tense, future tense
What are the 5 main plot elements?
Exposition, Inciting Incident, Climax, Resolution and Falling Action
What is chronological order?
Sequences of events in the order they happen