Characters & Themes
What is a character?
What is a subject?
The main character of Mother Fletcher's Gift (a policeman).
Who is O'Brien?
What is learning?
The writing trait where you expand on your point and add details.
What are ideas?
The main idea or central meaning of the story.
What is the theme?
The part of a sentence that tells us what the subject is or does (ex. sings in front of crowds in the sentence The performer sings in front of crowds).
What is a predicate?
The setting of Mother Fletcher's Gift.
What is Harlem?
Tricks you can use to improve the effectiveness of your memory.
What are mnemonic devices?
Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are examples of this writing trait.
What are conventions?
What is a character trait?
A group of words that doesn't have a subject or a predicate (ex. "The book on the table.")
What is a fragment?
A woman who lives by herself in a poor neighborhood and asks for O'Brien to call her an ambulance.
Who is Mother Fletcher?
The process of retrieving knowledge from your brain.
What is memory?
The writing trait where you show off your vocabulary.
What is word choice?
Dialogue, plot, and characters are all examples of this.
What are story elements?
Two or more complete sentences together (ex. "Global warming is getting worse it is important to save our planet the politicians aren't helping.")
What is a run-on?
Mother Fletcher knit this for O'Brien.
What is a sweater?
Learning facts and events.
What is declarative memory?
The writing trait where you make sure you don't have run-on sentences or repetitive sentences.
What is sentence fluency?
A dominant idea that keeps coming up in a work of literature (ex. the Force in Star Wars).
What is a motif?
The verb in a sentence, like the word organized in "Many of us organized a rally to save the environment."
What is the simple predicate?
The theme of Mother Fletcher's Gift.
What is a friendship that develops between two very different people?
The type of memory where your parents' faces, your pets' names, and your favorite foods are located.
What is long-term memory?
The writing trait where you show your personality.
What is voice?