English I - Review

What is tone? 

• The author's opinion on the subject.
• The author's attitude towards the subject or audience. 
• The author's major attitude problem. 
• How the reader feels about the text.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is theme? 

• The emotion or feeling of a text. 
• A one-word description of the text. 
• The deeper meaning of a text that may be stated directly or indirectly.
• The summary of all the main ideas in a text. 

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is a Simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A saying with a little bit of wisdom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is Personification?

• The repetition of usually consonant sounds.

• giving something human qualities

• Big exaggeration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a metaphor?

• Using like or as to compare two unlike things

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A form of word play in which the word has a double meaning.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Watching the game was like watching paint dry.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Flashback

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The calm lake was a mirror.

• Simile

• Flashback

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The boy bounced the basketball.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Flashback

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which sentence correctly uses a semi-colon?

• You should eat Candy Corn. It’s delicious. I can’t stand the texture of wax vampire lips.

• You should eat Candy Corn; It’s delicious. I can’t stand the texture of wax vampire lips.

• You should eat Candy Corn. It’s delicious; I can’t stand the texture of wax vampire lips.

• You should eat Candy Corn; it’s delicious. I can’t stand the texture of wax vampire lips.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which piece of dialogue is correctly punctuated?

• “You really shouldn’t have done that” He whispered.

• “You really shouldn’t have done that,” he whispered.

• You really shouldn’t have done that, he whispered.

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D