Theme
How do you define theme?
life lesson; moral of the story
When you give something non-human, human traits. As I walked through the forest, the darkness swallowed me up.
What is plot?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is dialogue?
A conversation between 2 or more people.
How many seconds are there in a year?
31,556,926
Does theme mean, what the story is mostly about?
No, that's 'main idea'.
What is a simile and give an example.
A simile is when you are comparing 2 things, but you use like or as. She was as cold as ice.
What are the 5 parts of a plot?
Exposition, Rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is the first type of punctuation that is used to show dialogue?
"quotation marks" Also, the comma, period, question mark or exclamation mark goes INSIDE of the quotation marks.
A group of frogs is called:
Fraggle
Army
Green group
Army
In Batman, what helps us figure out that "good triumphs over evil".
There are heroes and villains.
What is a metaphor and give an example?
A metaphor is when you compare 2 things and DON'T use like or as. He is the apple of my eye.
In what part of the plot do you get introduced to the characters and setting?
Exposition
What is a coordinate adjective?
When 2 adjectives are used and a comma splits them up. They can be used in either order. If you identify 2 adjectives in a row being used and if you put 'and' in between them and it would still make sense, then they are coordinate adjectives.
There are bees & McDonalds on every continent except for which one?
Antarctica
What does inference mean?
When you take your best guess. Also known as "reading between the lines". Coming to a conclusion based on the information that you have been given.
This song is fire. What type of figurative language is this?
Metaphor.
In what part of the plot does the most action happen? (It's what the rising action leads up to)
Climax
What are some capitalization rules that you can think of?
Capitalize Proper nouns: Names, cities, states, titles, brands
Otto, Dad, Mom, kayak, taco cat are all examples of:
Palindrome, acronym, ampersand