Point of View
"Do you love candy?" I asked my friend Roxy. I always make friends with other people.
What point of view is this sentence written from?
What is 1st person point of view?
An object that represents something besides its own literal meaning
What is a symbol?
When you don't understand a word, and you use the sentence around it to help identify the word's meaning, you are using...
What are context clues?
A form of poetry that tells a story
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, or happen.
What is a verb?
When the person telling a story is a character in the story. This uses the pronouns "I, me, my"
What is 1st person point of view?
Cupid is usually a symbol of what?
What is love?
What is the meaning of the prefix in- in the word incorrectly?
What is "not"?
A short poem with songlike qualities
What is lyric poetry?
the lesson or moral the author is trying to tell the reader (author's message)
What is the theme?
When the person telling a story is a narrator outside of the story and they know one characters thoughts and feelings
What is 3rd person limited?
True or false: Symbols represent a concept or idea that is more significant (or more important) than the symbol itself.
What is true?
Stench, smell, odor, and aroma- which of these words has a different connotation than the others?
What is aroma?
What type of poetry is this an example of?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
What is lyric poetry?
The dictionary definition of a word, the literal meaning
What is denotation?
When the person telling a story is a narrator outside of the story and they know all of the character's thoughts and feelings
What is 3rd person omniscient
What does the color blue typically symbolize?
What is sadness?
Confident, Egotistical, Arrogant- Which words have negative connotations?
What is egotistical and arrogant?
What type of poetry is this an example of:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps a better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as from that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
("The Road Not Taken")
What is narrative poetry?
The idea or feeling that a word invokes- not the literal meaning
What is connotation?
What point of view is this written in?
As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end
What is 3rd person omniscient?
One hot summer day, a weary fox padded down a dusty road, desperate for food and drink. He had traveled for miles without finding so much as a berry to nibble or a puddle of water to sip from.
Suddenly, a beautiful aroma filled the air. The fox sniffed and sniffed, his mouth watering in anticipation. Then he looked up. Several feet above him, trailing along a trellis, was a vine full of juicy grapes.
The fox jumped up, but he could not reach them. Then he backed up, took a running start, and leaped as high as he could. Still, the grapes remained out of reach. Again and again, he tried, with no success.
In this passage, grapes represent...
What is something a person wants but can't have?
Near the mouth of the ravine we came upon a small log cabin, which had evidently been build by trappers, but the emigrants on their way into the Oregon country had converted it into a post office, by sticking here and there, in the crevices of the logs, letters to be forwarded to their friends in the States. Hung on the wall where all might see it, was a general notice requesting any who passed on their way to the Missouri River to take these missives, and deposit them in the nearest regular post office.
What does the word missives most likely mean?
What is letters?
Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain," is an example of what type of poetry?
What is lyric?
The recipe was simple enough: flour, baking powder, salt, eggs, and milk; what could go wrong? I gathered the dry ingredients and dumped them in the mixing bowl; flour floated in the air, sticking on my lips and lashes. Many types of flour exist, but I chose bread flour because it is high in protein. Cracking the eggs was much more difficult than I had expected. Shell pieces floated in the bowl, and I used my fingers to pick them out one by one.
What sentence is distracting or interrupts the flow of the narrative?
What is 'many types of flour exist, but I chose bread flour because it is high in protein.'?