ELA Scholars Bowl

Passages that are made up from the author's imagination and are about non-real people and events are . . .

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

What strategy should you use when annotating POETRY?

• GIFTS (gist, imagery, figurative language, tone, speaker)

• PACTS (problem, action, characters, theme, setting)

• 5W's (who, what, where, when, why)

Context Clues: When he didn’t understand the instructions, the student asked the teacher to clarify them.

• remove

• declare

• explain

• suggest

What is theme?

• The topic of the passage

• The message of the passage

• The summary of the passage

• The GIST of the passage

“I admire the way you have worked so hard throughout your life.”

Based on this sentence, what does the word admire mean?

• Dislike

• Appreciate

• Hurtful

• Underdstand

A theme should be a statement, not just one word.

• TRUE

• FALSE

One way you could figure out the theme is to. . .

• Skim through the story

• Think about what the character has learned

• Think about who the main character is

• Read the ending of the story

What is the central theme of this poem?

• Nature and man must get along

• Sunsets and sunrises are beautiful

• Wonderful and beautiful things only last a short while

• Nature and beauty are permanent

What does the personification in this text suggest?

• The daffodils were moving in the wind.

• The daffodils were a beautiful sight.

• The daffodils enjoyed dancing.

• The daffodils were hard to see.

What is the main purpose of a topic sentence in a paragraph?

• To introduce the main idea

• To provide supporting details

• To conclude the paragraph

• To ask a question