Vocabulary

Juxtaposition is...

• The figurative comparison between two unlike things

• Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast

• A position on the football field

• What readers do when they compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the definition of audience?

• the readers that the text is intended for

• a group of people listening at a concert

• anyone who is reading the text

• the reason the text is written

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is conflict?

• Two characters getting along.
• A struggle between two (or more) opposing forces.

• The climax in a story.
• Part of the resolution.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the definition of genre?

• Different categories of composition

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• How you determine the ending.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

• A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• A type of poem in which two things are compared

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Pacing means making sure all story elements are equal in a narrative.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What does the word "archetype" mean?

• Ancient ruins
• The villain in the story

• Something that is universally understood across different cultures.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is characterization?

• Character traits

• What a character says and thinks

• The process in which the author tells the personality of a character.

• What a character looks like and what are his actions

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

True or false: a satire uses humor to critique something that is wrong with society

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Dialogue is...

• a memory or experience the author writes about

• a conversation between characters or people in a story

• a type of figurative language used to make your writing interesting

• a part of speech that describes a noun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D