Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Testing Words
Odds and Ends
This and that
100
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is alliteration?
100
The waffle jumped up out of the toaster.
What is personification?
100
This is when you find things that are similiar.
What is comparing?
100
The narrarator is usuallly a charater in the story and uses the words "I" or "we".
What is first person point of view?
100
April 17, 18, 19
What are the dates of the ELA exam?
200
Ten tough tarantulas tacked the tomatoes.
What is alliteration?
200
Louisa recalled the events when she first ran away.
What is flashback?
200
This is when you find differences.
What is constrasting?
200
The boys gathered stones at the beginning of "The Lottery". In the end of the story a woman was stoned to death.
What is foreshadowing?
200
RICE
What is read the questions and all the answers identify key information in the question cross off answers that do not make sense evaluate remaining answers?
300
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
300
These are the events in a story.
What is the plot?
300
This is when you draw conclusions or make an educated guess.
What is inferencing?
300
The narrrator seems to know what everyone is thinking and feeling in the story.
What is third person omniscient?
300
• Plan your writing • Restate the writing prompt • Go back to the text for supporting details • Use quotation marks when lifting information from the text.
What are good writing strategies?
400
The car zoomed down the street.
What is onomatopeia?
400
This is when and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
This is supporting your answer.
What is providing evidence (specific facts) to back up or to prove your main ideas?
400
This is the problem in a story
What is the conflict?
400
• Listen intently • Take notes both times • Write notes/ phrases • Use an organizational tool
What are good note taking (listening) strategies?
500
Life is a zoo.
What is a metaphor
500
The people ont the way to the fitness center rode on the elevator instead of walking up the stairs.
What is irony?
500
This is evaluating a question.
What is giving your point of view and giving evidence for it?
500
This is interpreting information.
What is when you explain or describe the meaning or significance (importance) of something; making it clear (What you think without saying “I think”)
500
This is the general feeling that the author creates.
What is the mood or tone of a story?