Final review

What is the THEME of a story?

• The main idea

• The most important part of the story

• The lesson/moral of the story

What does it mean to be nostalgic?  

• Wanting to do something new

• Wishing for the past

• Having regrets

• Making a mistake

What is Sensory language?

• Descriptive details that appeal to your senses

• Vocabulary words

• Complex sentences

What is an inference?

• Text evidence to answer a question

• An educated guess based off prior knowledge and context clues

• A random guess

• A fact based off of experience

Which part of the story includes the main action/anticipated problem?

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Climax

• Resolution

What is irony?

• Something that is funny

• The opposite of what you expect

• The author's hidden message

What does denotation mean?

• Words associated with

• Feelings of a word

• Dictionary definition

• Vocabulary

What does connotation mean?

• Dictionary definition

• words associated- negative or positive

• context clues

What was the tone of Poe's writing?

• Uplifting, joyful

• Bleak, mysterious, dark

• Sad

What is dramatic irony?

• An unexpected ending

• The audience knows something the characters dont

• The characters know something the audience doesnt