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Main Idea
Context Clues
Characterization
Literary Analysis
Diction
100
These details are used to support the main idea.
What are supporting details.
100
Context clues are?
What are clues in a sentence about an unknown word.
100
the personality traits of a character
What are character traits
100
Analyzing or breaking down a character to understand the character
What is character analysis
100
Diction comes from this word
What is a dictionary
200
Traditionally, the main idea of a paragraph can be found where?
What is the first sentence.
200
Context clues can be in the following three forms...
What is definition, example, or synonym.
200
This is what happens when a character changes
What is character development
200
What character would a student in the class write a literary analysis essay about?
Who is Stanley Yelnats
200
What is diction
Refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices
300
Which term best describes the main idea of writing piece?
What is a central point.
300
A strategy used in class where you replace an easy word for a hard word is called
What is diffusion
300
Trustworthy and hard-working
What are adjectives to describe Zero.
300
A change that you don't decide to make
What is an involuntary change
300
The dictionary definition
What is denotation
400
Read the passage. The rain forest is home to many creatures. Monkeys, toucans and macaws live in the rain forest. Blue Morpho butterflies and anteaters also live in the rain forest. The main idea is...
What is...The rain forest is home to many creatures.
400
What does the prefix con mean AND what does the root text mean?
What is with AND letters/writing
400
How does an author provide characterization?
What is by 1) looks 2) actions 3) thoughts 4) what character says 5) what others say or think about him
400
To better understand literature, we look at point of view. What pronoun does 1st person use.
What is I
400
The emotional words attached to a word
What is connotation
500
One of the big programming surprises of the 2002 summer TV series was a show on the Fox Network called American Idol, a talent search that highlighted several aspiring performers. The final episode of the show garnered the biggest audience share among 18- to 49-year olds that the network has ever had. Based on a British series called Pop Idol, American Idol is another in a long list of shows that the United States has imported. In fact, many popular U.S. TV shows originated overseas. These include the quiz shows Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and The Weakest Link, both also from Britain . Other examples include Survivor, imported from Sweden; Big Brother , based on a Dutch series of the same name; and TLC's Trading Spaces, based on the British series, Changing Rooms.
What is big programming surprises.
500
What verb could replace the word fled in the sentence: She fled upstairs!
What is flew, sprinted, (many answers accepted)
500
Characterization tell us
What is all the ways we get to know a character.
500
To better understand literature, we look at point of view. What pronoun does 3rd person use.
What is he, she, it
500
words like fat, ugly, stupid carries a more positive or negative connotation?
What is negative