Chocolate Chips
VERB PHRASE:
We will be making chocolate chip cookies.
What is "will be making"?
Wes Moore attended this school after he nearly failed out of Riverdale.
What is Valley Forge Military Academy?
This type of verbal irony is exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Spot the error:
Its almost time for vacation.
What is "its"?
Unlike fiction, this type of writing is based on facts.
What is NONFICTION?
ADVERB:
Dump this bag of chips inside.
What is INSIDE?
Other Wes is imprisoned for this crime.
What is robbery and the murder of a police officer?
This form of figurative language compares two things using "like," "as," or "than."
What is a simile?
Spot the error:
I'm really sick of they're music.
What is THEY'RE?
When we write, we use 12-point font, 1" margins, header, heading, and double-spacing because we follow this set of guidelines.
What is MLA Format?
SUBJECT:
Stop eating those chocolate chips!
What is (implied) YOU?
The author has two middle names that guide him during his teenage years.
What are WATENDE and OMARI?
When an author chooses to interrupt the events of a story to relate an event from the past, it is called one of these.
What is a flashback?
Find the error:
I wish they'd serve less pizza, although I'm really sorry they're giving us less cupcakes.
What is "less cupcakes"?
Poems that do not follow a set rhyme scheme or meter are called this type of verse.
What is FREE VERSE?
Prepositional phrases:
We pulled the cookies from the oven and dropped them on the floor.
What are "from the oven" and "on the floor"?
The epidemic that sweeps through many major American cities during the 1980s and 1990s and profoundly affects Other Wes.
What is the crack epidemic?
When an author uses one of these, she introduces something designed to direct the reader's attention elsewhere. An example of this occurs when Carlson carries a Luger, the gun German officers carried in WWI, and also when Zaroff refers to the Bolshevik Revolution as "the debacle in Russia" in "The Most Dangerous Game."
What is an ALLUSION?
Even though they can grow to 12 feet long, the corn snakes' head is actually very small.
What is "corn snakes' "? (should be corn snake's)
This type of irony occurs when the the audience knows something the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
ADVERBS
Unfortunately, we ate too many cookies and felt very sick.
What are UNFORTUNATELY, TOO, and VERY?
When the author lives in South Africa, the nation has just elected Nelson Mandela after the country has ended this strict separation of whites and blacks.
What is APARTHEID?
Unlike surprise, an author uses this tool when she wants her reader to anticipate future events.
What is suspense?
Find the error:
Its sad to say this, but the Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, isn't having a great season.
What is "Its? (missing it + is contraction)
When an author chooses to address the audience using "you" throughout a story, we say the author has chosen this rare point of view.
What is second person POV?