Plot and Text Structure
What is the turning point in the story?
What is the Climax.
What is the Point of View when the story is told from a narrator outside the text who is all knowing?
What is third person omniscient.
"There were only seventeen states in the Union then, so most of the country was to Americans a mysterious wilderness. Every year explorers set out to chart distant rivers and mountains? (paragraph 6)
What does the word chart mean as it is used in paragraph 6?
What is A, map out unknown areas.
What is the definition of theme?
The type of figurative language that compares two things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is metaphor.
What text structure is used in this passage?
Pollution causes many issues all across the globe. Some of the biggest include loss of habitat and extinction of different animal species. The effects of pollution can be seen in places like the polar ice caps, where the ice is melting. Because of the melting ice, polar bears may soon be extinct.
What is Cause and Effect.
What perspective is The Lightning Thief told from
We packed our bags in June.
I braced for a summer
What is the meaning of braced as it is used in line 2 of Passage 2?
What is C, prepared.
What is the definition of central idea?
What is what the text is mainly about.
What does the metaphor, "for every lock there is a key," mean?
What is for every problem there is a solution.
These signal words are used in what type of text structure?
characteristics, for example, for instance, illustrates, in fact, in addition to, reveals, such as.
What is description.
Read the sentence from the passage.
"My father beamed with pride. "Ramon," he said, pointing at the sign, "Look! Now there are two Salazars to deal in pearls." (paragraph 1)
What does the phrase "beamed with pride" suggest about Ramon's father?
What is D, he is happy to be working with his son.
Read this sentence from the passage.
"It is a magnificent collection of pictures of almost five hundred species—some of them discovered by Audubon himself—and when it was published, the world knew him as one of the greatest bird artists who had ever lived." (paragraph 4)
What does the word magnificent suggest about The Birds of America?
A It is unique.
B It is famous.
What is D, it is impressive.
Can the theme or central idea of a story be told in one sentence?
What is no.
What does the metaphor, "life for me ain't been no crystal stair," mean.
What is life is not easy but you should not give up on the climb.
"Hettle tried to see the Cally she had known through the makeup,the fancy clothes,and the magazine's airbrushing." (paragraph 5)
How does this sentence develop the plot?
What is B, establishes the conflict by showing how much Cally changed.
What do you call a character that does not change throughout a story?
What is a static character.
Based on the prefix "pre-," what does the word predetermined mean?
What is D, decided in advance.
"To chase away the fear,
I flipped through a dictionary,
plucked out the word hush" (lines 7-9)
How do these lines help develop the overall theme of Passage 2?
What is C, They show that the speaker tries to be calm in the face of change.
What is C, they both viewed Yosemite as a place worthy of respect and admiration.
What is the event that propels the plot forward called?
(Hint, comes after the exposition)
What is the inciting incident.
What do you call a character that does change throughout a story?
What is a dynamic character.
"The colonists also sounded their trumpets and drums to let the Indians know when they were approaching. 'It may have been to let the Indians know that they were on official business, or perhaps to intimidate them,'Straube says."
What does the word intimidate mean as it is used in the sentence?
What is B, frighten.
What is yes.
What does figurative language do?
What is add color to your writing.