The turning point of a story, or the point of the highest interest and suspense, is called...

What is plot?

Resolution occurs at the...

What can be described as the beginning of the conflict: if this point didn't happen, the rest of the story couldn't take place.

Characters, setting, and the introduction to a major conflict are all part of...

Which part of the story ties up loose ends revolving around the conflict?

Rising action is where...

What are number 1 and number 5 in the picture?

What are number 2 and number 6 in the picture?

John wished he could get rid of the dread he felt in the pit of his stomach that told him something terrible was about to happen and happen today.

Craig thought high school was his best school years. But with a smile, he thought back to that first day in 9th grade. He was so nervous he got off at the wrong school, spilled icing on his shirt, and dropped his notebook in a puddle. Hie chuckled and shook his head, then ran to catch up with his friends yelling, "Hey, wait for me!"

Serena desperately wanted to get her driver's license, but she was nervous about the driving test. Her father pulled into the parking lot of the DMV. Serena felt the scar on her arm. She shuddered as she recalled the day of the horrible accident. It had been raining all night and the roads were so slick. The other car came crashing across the lane into them. The sound had been so loud. But that was then. Becca looked up at the sun and opened the car door.

Cupid's arrow sure hit bullseye with Jenny and Mark. They are truly two lovebirds.

Chris loved taking Rango to the park. He returned, put the leash away and hugged Rango's neck as he said, "You are my very best friend, Rango?" Chris's mother looked over to her husband as a look of concern spread across her face. The old dog walked slowly to his water bowl.

Looking at the eager young faces staring up at her, Jennifer remembered the day she first played volley. Her coach had said, "Just be there and play fair. Have fun!" Even now I still use this good advice, she thought. She cleared her throat, and in her best 'coaching' voice she said, "Just be there and play fair. Have fun!"

I love animals too, but with two cats, a dog, a snake, a gerbil, and four beta fish, James is the real Doctor Dolittle!

Mark's mom reminded him about missing curfew. Mark knew he would be grounded and hated his parent's reminders. It took twenty minutes to get home. Curfew was at 12:00, so at 11:40, he got into his car to leave. Mark thought his dad worried to much. As he pulled away, he thought, "What could go wrong?"

Simon is such a good Samaritan that I was not surprised when he pulled over to see if he could help the elderly lady cross the street yesterday.

The mood at the dance was so dismal, you would swear the Grim Reaper was the DJ playing each and every song.

Which of the following best defines foreshadowing?

Foreshadowing helps build suspense, excitement and curiosity to promote continual reading. Foreshadowing may appear in _________________________.

i. Character's speech       ii. Character's actions

iii. Description of setting  iv. Character’s nature

In the following, which line subtly hints at foreshadowing?

Define foreshadowing.

An author's technique that uses clues to give the reader hints of events to come. 

What is the definition of theme?

Susie was waiting for Tina to arrive in the crowded lunch room.  She looked through the crowd to see if she could spot Tina from afar.  Tina was standing in an area all by herself.  She had a perplexed look on her face, as there were no other seats available.  Thankfully, Susie had saved her a seat, and all was well.

What is the moral?

Three flies notice an overturned honey pot. Two of the flies decide to land in the honey and start eating it. But the oldest fly stays back. The two flies tease the older fly, but then get stuck in the honey.

What is the theme of this story?

 Susie was waiting for Tina to arrive in the crowded lunch room.  She looked through the crowd to see if she could spot Tina from afar.  Tina was standing in an area all by herself.  She had a perplexed look on her face, as there were no other seats available.  Thankfully, Susie had saved her a seat, and all was well.

What is the theme?

Jim was stacking boxes at work.  There was a certain height he had to reach.  He stretched his body, but could not reach to place the final box at the top.  Bill happened to see Jim struggling and came to his rescue, since he was a foot taller.

What is the theme?

The three-year-old peered down from the diving board and looked back at his mother behind him.  His knees began to buckle as he took another step forward.  "Splash!"

What is the theme?

She sobbed for hours trying to think of a way out of having to tell her father she wrecked her new car.  After stewing over it for quite some time, she called her father on his cell phone.  "Thank you," he said.

What is the theme?

To identify a theme in a story, a reader can ask ...

Which of the following statements about theme is TRUE?

Where can a reader find the theme?

Little Red Riding Hood gets herself into danger by disobeying her parents and revealing too much information to a wolf on her way to her grandmother’s house.

Which is it?

Never talk to strangers.

Which is it?

Trust

Which is it?

Appearances can sometimes be deceiving.

Which is it?

Charity

Which is it?

Instead of sabotaging one another, the chefs worked together to create a masterpiece.

Which is it?

Kindness can achieve more than cruelness.

Which is it?

Be kind to others.

Which is it?

War does not solve problems.

Which is it?

Love

Which is it?

“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me.

"Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type.

"I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles.

"I'd be scared to let go," I type.

"Afraid you'd fall?" she asks.

"No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”

― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

"Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar

How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

What poetry term is used when the same consonant sound is used many times in a line but at ANY PART of the words.

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ________, __________ and __________. (use alliteration)

Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.

What poetry term is being used in this sentence: "so the sounds sailed the sea with her"

The pushy fish said, “Hush!”

All the cat’s paw-prints were gone.

The rhino and the tiger like ice cream.

Larry laughed during lunch.

Do you like blue?

A dove moved silently above the waves.

Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes

What type of irony is this?

A mother comes into the TV room and discovers her 11-year-old watching television instead of doing his homework. Pointing to the screen she says, “I see you are busy, kiddo, but when you're finished with your serious studies there, maybe we could take some time out for recreation and do a little math.”

What type of irony is this?

A couple appears in court to finalize a divorce, but during the proceeding, they reconcile and decide to remarry instead.

What type of irony is this?

Romeo and Juliet are secretly married, but Juliet's parents insist that she should marry Paris. Juliet tries to fake her death in order to run off with Romeo, but, being a typical teenager, neglects to tell Romeo about her plan. She becomes unconscious after drinking a sleeping potion given to her by the apothecary. When Romeo discovers Juliet, he thinks that she is dead, not knowing that she is merely unconscious. He consumes poison and kills himself.

What type of irony is this?

Dad is finally out of patience with picking up after his son, who cannot seem to put his dirty clothes in the hamper instead of letting them drop wherever he happens to be when he takes them off. Dad says to him, “Would it please Milord if I, his humble servant, were to attend to the laundry?"

What type of irony is this?

On Friday night, Jim leaves with friends to watch a basketball game but when he arrives, there is a chess tournament going on instead. The basketball game is actually on Saturday night.

What type of irony is this?

Dwight is seated at his desk working diligently when Jim sneaks up behind him silently. Jim, a great prankster, is dressed as a bear. Dwight is known to practice karate in case of bear attacks, and he takes bear attacks quite seriously, but Jim does not know this. Everyone in the office sees Jim about to “scare” Dwight out of his wits, but they do nothing.

What type of irony is this?

Jan buys herself something she has wanted for a long time – an iPhone 11 – after months of saving her allowance. When her grandmother visits days later, she surprises Jan – with an iPhone 11.

What type of irony is this?

“Clear your desks,” says the teacher. “All you need is a pen.” The teacher then passes out clean sheets of college ruled loose leaf paper. “Please put a proper MLA heading at the tops of your paper,” the teacher continues, “and number your paper 1 – 10.” The students seem anxious and are oddly quiet. “Now,” says the millionaire teacher seriously, “write down ten things you would like me to buy you at the mall this weekend.”

What type of irony is this?

You pull up to a red light next to a group of the toughest, meanest looking motorcycle riders you've ever seen. You sneak a glance at the guy in the front, who is covered with tattoos and has a helmet with teeth on the visor. Then you look at his jacket, where you see the tiniest, cutest kitten head popping out of the zipper.

What type of irony is this?

The temperature in the English classroom is, like it often is, egregiously warm. “Why is it always so cold in here?” asks a sixth grader, without raising his hand.

What type of irony is this?

The winner of the annual St. Mary’s Benefit raffle for $10,000 turns out to be Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world.

What type of irony is this?

A man hates his wife's cheap, fake jewelry. When she dies, he slowly sinks into poverty and decides to sell the fake jewelry for the few measly dollars he can get for it. He discovers that it's not fake after all, but worth thousands of francs.

Identify the type of irony: “That was as much fun as having a root canal,” RJ. said after the difficult math test.

Identify the type of irony: Sari carefully avoided the puddles, but she didn’t see the pond and fell in.

What was said is the opposite of what was meant

In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is.

What type of irony is this ?

Irony usually involves something that is

Firefighters leave the firehouse to put out a fire at the school. After the fire is quelled, they return to the firehouse to shower. When they arrive, they find it has burned down.

"Her face is as white as snow," is an example of ______

What word imitates a sound in the following sentence: "I heard the humming of bees?"

What figure of speech is described as the usage of exaggerated terms in order to emphasize or heighten the effect of something?

Which of the following is not an example of simile?

Which of the following words does not imitate a sound?

"My wallet is crying," is an example of

It is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated objects or ideas without the use of as or like.

It is described as the use of word which imitates a sound.

"Ribbit!" the frog said to the snake. "You must let me pass!" is an example of what two types of figurative language?

Which of the following is an example of metaphor?

Which of the following sentences is an example of personification?

Which of the following is a simile?

Select all that apply.

Which of the following is an example of oxymoron?

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

Select all that apply.

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

Which of the following is an example of personification?

Which of the following is an example of simile?

Select all that apply.

Which of the following is an example of simile?

Which of the following is an example of oxymoron?

Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia?

Which of the following is an example of exaggeration?

Select all that apply.

Which two figures of speech make comparisons?

When words are literal, they mean exactly what they say.

Knowing the type of figure of speech is more important than understanding the meaning of it.

I’m on a heavy diet until my wedding day.

if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything

Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie

He was forced to stand down from his position as president.

He is the only honest thief.

Identify the paradox

Read the following phrase.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

He installed the new wireless cable in the television room.

Only choice

Less is More.

Identify the paradox.

"If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing."

Kelly Clarkson sings: "Oh, he's so beautiful--such a beautiful disaster." She is using...

If you want peace, you must prepare for war.

Which word would create an oxymoron if you added it to the word "clearly?"

Identify the paradox

Choose the sentence which parallelism structure is being used.

Choose the sentence which parallelism structure is being used.

Gabi started the engine, released the break, and checked the seats.

Mikasa wants neither the black scarf nor the yellow scarf.

Armin likes either walking the dog or to go for a jog.

 The audience in Wall Maria cheered, laughed, and cried too.

Determine if the sentence is Faulty or Correct

The student was scolded by her tutor, reprimanded by her dad, and told off by her mother.

Determine if the sentence is Faulty or Correct

The teacher told the students that they should get a lot of rest, that they should study, and to do some prayers before the exams.

Fill in the blank: The concept of parallelism in writing involves the use of ______ structures.

Using all ______ or passive voice is a way to achieve parallel structure.

Identify the parallel structure in the following sentence: 'She likes to swim, to run, and to bike.'

Choose the sentence that does not have parallel structure: A) I like to jog, to swim, and to read. B) She wants to dance, sing, and to travel. C) He enjoys cooking, baking, and to eat. D) We plan to hike, to camp, and to fish.

Fill in the blank: When listing verbals like gerunds or infinitives, stick to one type or the other and remain _________.

Choose the sentence that is not parallel: A) She likes to swim, to run, and to hike. B) He enjoys reading books, playing video games, and cooking meals. C) My goals are to exercise daily, eating healthy, and to get more sleep.

Choose the sentence that is parallel: A) She likes to swim, running, and to hike. B) She likes swimming, running, and hiking. C) She likes to swim, to run, and hiking.

Which of the following sentences is in passive voice?

I want this to be done ___

Rewrite the following sentence using parallel structure: I like swimming, to run, and reading.

Rewrite the following sentence using parallel structure: The coach told the players to work hard, that they should be disciplined, and to not give up.

Parallel structure creates patterns that are easy to follow so the reader understand the main idea.

Rewrite the following sentence using parallel structure: The teacher told the students to study hard, that they should be focused, and to not procrastinate.

Rewrite the following sentence using parallel structure: She enjoys hiking, biking, and to go for a walk.

Which is true about the passive voice in English?

Which sentence is the most parallel?

Which sentence is the most parallel?