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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 This genre deals with the past. | Historical Fiction |
| This genre focuses on a made up story that seems real, for example, "An Hour With Abuelo". | Realistic Fiction |
| This genre is fiction and shorter than a novel. | Short Story |
| This genre deals with aliens, robots, time travel and it could possibly happen in the future. "Who Can Replace a Man" | Science fiction |
| This is the lengthiest folk tale. | Epic |
| This genre deals with gods, goddesses and heroes. | Myth |
| This genre could never happen. "Fox Hunt" | Fantasy |
| This genre has animals that teach the reader a lesson. | Fable |
| This is longer than a short story. We might call it a chapter book. | Novel |
| This story focuses on a story of a person who has been exaggerated over time. It's a story told orally. | Legend or Tall Tale |
| These are peoples whose deeds or virtues are celebrated. We admire them! | Hero/Heroine |
| If you are downplaying something to be humorous. | Understatement |
| If you give human qualities to a non-living object. | Personification |
| A lesson that is taught over time and across cultures. | Universal Theme (Recurring) |
| If you exaggerate something for comical effects it would be called this. | Hyperbole |
| The way a particular region of the country speaks. This could be their accent or grammar usage. | Dialect |
| This is choosing the main points to share about a story or passage. It is brief. | Summary |
| These are hints in a sentence that will help you figure out what a word means. | Context Clues |
| This is a word that cannot be translated or taken literally. It's raining cats and dogs. | Idiom |
| Her room is LIKE a pig sty would be this figure of speech. | Simile |
| LIfe is a journey would be this figure of speech. | Metaphor |
| Her eyes sparkle like the stars. | Simile |
| The sun is smiling down upon us! | Personification |
| Love is a battlefield. | Metaphor |
| The students studied Spanish silently. Which figure of speech would this be? | Alliteration |
| The pen DANCED across her paper. | Personification |
| The emotions that the author creates in the reader. For example, we felt sadness and shock when the baby died in the boxcar on the way to the concentration camp. | Mood |
| Ponyboy told his story in THE OUTSIDERS. He used "I" and "We" as his pronouns. | First person narrator |
| If Cherry Valance told Ponyboy's story using "He" and "They" in the story, what would this be? | Third person narrator |
| Hungry, famished and starving are all what? | Synonyms |
| Exhausted and wide awake would be? | Antonyms |
| Plot graph: The most intense part of the story. This tends to be the middle of the book. | Climax |
| The wrapping up of loose ends. If a story has a sequel it may not have this. | Denouement |
| Meeting the characters/background information | Exposition |
| All of the events that lead to the climax | Rising Action |
| The first act of conflict. This was when Ponyboy got jumped on the way home from the movies. | Inciting Incident |
| This would be solving the problem. The end of the story. | Resolution |
| These are the events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution. | Falling Action |
| This shows the relationship between words. | Analogy |
| Boy: Girl ______:Woman | Man |
| "Aud "means | To listen; to hear (auditory) |
| "De" means | To lessen (decrease) |
| What is a subordinate/dependent clause? | It cannot stand alone. |
| What is an independent clause? | It has a subject, verb and a complete thought. It can stand alone. |
| My students, the eighth graders, are studying for exams. What phrase is this? | Appositive phrase |
| Ya'll need to listen, ya' hear? | Dialect |
| Their dog was tired AFTER HE HAD SURGERY. Is this capitalized clause dependent or independent? | Dependent. This is also called subordinate. |
| The following is which type of sentence? After the surgery, her dog had to wear a leg brace, but she tried to bite it off because it itched. | Compound-complex sentence |
| Identify the coordinating conjunction. I love to run, but swimming is better on your knees. | But (Think of FANBOYS - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.) |
| Which pronoun do you typically use for an animal? | Its. Its paws were injured from the dry grass. |
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