academic Vocabulary

What is an example of author's purpose?

• texting my friend during class

• Music lyrics

• IDK

• an article to inform people about global warming

Which one is an example of an autobiography?

• a letter to WalMart complaining about the dirty the bathrooms.

• Jackie's Robinson life story about his trials being an African American baseball player in the 1940's.

• An article about the effects of technology on teenagers

• the novel Hush.

Connotation

• What does connotation mean?

• The sky is blue.

• She has a pretty ring.

• “I could have gotten one of the gang

  to come along, one of the four boys Darry and Soda and I have

  grown up with and consider family” (3).

Context clues

• WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

• Besides, I look better with long hair

• His emaciation, that is, his skeleton-like appearance, was frightening to see.

• We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class.

Dialogue

• So I lay still, swearing at them between gasps. A blade was held against my throat.

• "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?"

• It occurred to me then that they could kill me.

• I went wild.

Diary

• Last night I went to the drive in with Marcia and I met a really interesting boy named Ponyboy and he was so nice even though he was a greaser!!!!!

• I realized then that Marcia and Cherry weren't alike.

• Cherry had said she wouldn't drink Dally's Coke if she was starving, and she meant it.

• It was the principle of the thing. But Marcia saw no reason to throw away a perfectly good, free Coke.

External Conflict

• Besides, I like walking.

• I could have waited to go to the movies until Darry or Sodapop got off work.

• A blade was held against my throat.

• I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don't use my head.

sensory language

• I could smell English Leather shaving lotion and stale tobacco,

• A blade was held against my throat.

• "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?"

• Her hardest hue to hold.

Foreshadow

• I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.

• I could have waited to go to the movies until Darry or Sodapop got off work.

• I only mean that most greasers do things like that, just like we wear our hair long and dress in blue jeans and T-shirts,

• We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we're wilder, too

Imagery

• but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I

• And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do.

• For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it.

• WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house,