WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?

Please don't spend a lot of money on my birthday present. I'm just thankful to have such a wonderful mother and father. I'll just use the little money I have to buy myself an inexpensive coat. And if I can only find coats that cost more than what I have saved up, I'll just continue wearing the coat I have, even if the zipper is broken.

Getting a New School

They are building a new school near my house. Every day I watch the workers drive huge tractors and push a ton of dirt. They have big cranes that help them place tall beams in the ground. The workers build walls using bricks. Every day it looks more and more like a school. Mom says I will go there in the fall.

Why so you think this story is called "Getting a New School?"

WHAT IS THIS PARAGRAPH MAINLY ABOUT?

Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind! Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.

What does the term "main idea" mean?

WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?

When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,

WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS THE AUTHOR USING?

"It SHUSHES.

It hushes

The loudness in the road.

It flitter-twitters,

And laughs away from me.

WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED?

Betty Botter bought some butter.

"I have a million things to do!" is an example of an extreme exaggeration used to make a point. The term used to describe this is called a _________________________ .

WHICH PLOT ELEMENT IS THIS?

"Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a girl named Cinderella. She lived with her evil step-mother and two evil step-sisters.

True or False: The "Resolution" is when all loose ends are tied up.

True or False: The "rising action" is where the problems and characters are developed through a series of actions.

The protagonist is the _____________________

The antagonist is the ______________________

The problem in a story is the _________________

The theme is the ___________________ of a story.

You will find the exposition at the ______________ of a story

True or False: The climax is the low point of the story, where the characters face a decision or event that will resolve the conflict in one way or another.

True or False: Falling action is the solving of problems and the wrapping up of the story

WHAT IS THE CLIMAX?

"A little girl has been looking for her lost dog. She hears a bark coming from around the corner, and she looks around to see . . ."

True or False: the way events are ordered to create a story is called the plot.

The exposition is often the very last part of the plot.

True or False: An example of internal conflict is when a character has a conflict with him/her self.

True or False: Tone indicates the writer's attitude toward his/her subject.

True or False: What the reader feels is known as the mood.

WHAT TONE IS THE AUTHOR CREATING IN THE PARAGRAPH?

And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.

______________________________ are the methods by which story tellers reveal the traits of characters.

Craig is a football player training over the summer for next season. The coach demands that all players come in at 6:00 AM and lift weights until 8:00 AM, when practice begins. Craig gets there at 5:00 AM to begin his training.

What character trait does Craig demonstrate? _______________________________________________

Anna volunteered to help Kylie clean her house. When Anna washed the mirrors, Kylie asked her if she used paper towels instead of newspapers. When Anna admitted that she had, Kylie asked her to redo them. Then, while Anna was sweeping, Kylie corrected her on her technique. "Don't just push the dirt around, Anna. SWEEP it," Kylie told Anna.

Which TWO character traits does Kylie demonstrate?

"Dialogue" is when _________________________________.

True or False: The narrator is the person who is telling the story.

Stories told in the "first-person" narrative perspective use these pronouns. Select one answer.

Stories told in the "third-person" narrative perspective use these pronouns. select one answer.

True or False: In first person point of view, the narrator is not in the story.

When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself… I had no brothers or sisters. So through boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there was just us two, my father and me. We lived in an old gypsy caravan behind a filling station.”

WHICH NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE IS THE STORY TOLD FROM?

"Lisa," said Kyle, "I need help moving this box of toys for the garage sale. Will you help me?"

THIS SENTENCE IS AN EXAMPLE OF CHARACTERS USING ___________________________.