Literature
Plot, Characters, Setting, and Theme
What are story elements?
What is central or main idea?
Your background knowledge and prior experience.
What is your schema?
Uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison
What is a simile?
"self"
What is auto-?
A folktale which taught that wisdom comes with age.
What is The Wise Old Woman?
The autobiographical memoir written by Farah Ahmedi.
What is The Other Side of the Sky?
Roots, affixes, and base words
What are word parts?
Helps to paint a picture in the reader's mind
What is figurative language?
"water"
What is hydra- or hydro-?
A message conveyed by the interaction of story elements
What is theme?
The main idea of an informational essay.
What is a thesis statement?
Mike’s parrot was loquacious, but Maria’s said very little.
What is an example of contrast?
A reference to a literary work, historical event or person, mythology, religion, or pop culture.
What is allusion?
"the study of"
What is -ology?
The King of Mazy May
Who is Walt Masters?
Learned that being a proud American did not mean scrubbing away what made him originally foreign.
Who is Ernesto Galarza?
Synonyms, antonyms, definition, example, roots and affixes
What are types of context clues?
Similes, metaphors, allusion, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia
What are figures of speech?
"foot"
The Hunger Games boasts similarities to this classic, yet disturbing, short story.
What is The Lottery?
Used to support claims and/or inferences.
What is textual evidence?
Celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and stars, are governed by predictable laws.
What is the use of example?
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
What is a metaphor?
"pnuemo"
What is relating to the lungs?