English test-Monday

Person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs supernatural

Name all of the conflicts

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

Plot diagram

Before you read look at the text features including titles, subtitles, footnotes, and graphics

Preview the text

Relate your personal experience and knowledge to what your reading and use your prior knowledge and experience to help you understand the characters and situations

Connect with the text

Inquire about situations and statements, consider the motives of the characters, and try and figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words or challenging passages

Ask questions

Try to guess what will happen next and use clues about the plot or characters that indicate where the story is headed

Make predictions

Make inferences to connect ideas and events and grasp the plot as a whole

Draw conclusions

Question the characters behavior, dialogue, etc. and dispute the situation, events, or outcome

Challenge the text

Reflect on the meaning of the text and think about its larger significance and think about how the text can extend to some universal aspect of human life or theme

Identify universal message (theme)

Persuade, inform, entertain,and express

What does P.I.E.E stand for

Advertisements, commercials, editorials, and political speech

Persuade writings

Journal entries, poetry, personal letters, and texting

Expressive writings

Creative writing, short stories, books, movie scripts, comics, and magazines

Entertainment writings

Research papers, lab reports, textbooks, and news reports

Informational writings

The narrator: is a character in the story and does not know the thoughts of the other characetrs

First person POV

The narrator is NOT a character in the story and the narrator is all-knowing and knows the thoughts & feelings of multiple characetrs

Third person omniscient POV

The narrator is NOT one of the characters and the narrator focuses on the thoughts & feeling of ONE characters

Third person limited POV

The author tells the reader a character’s personality

Direct characterization

The author shows the reader a character’s personality through dialogue, actions, appearance…

Indirect characterization

Adjective that describes a character’s appearance or personality

Character trait

The main character in a story who drives the action. Does NOT have to be a “good guy”

Protagonist

The force (character/nature/circumstance) that works against the protagonist

Antagonist

Someone who is not always perceptive about what is going on in a story OR someone who is deliberately not telling the whole truth

Unreliable narrator

A character or the reader expects one thing to happen but something else happens instead. A twist!

Situational irony

When a character says something that they don’t mean

Verbal irony

The audience knows something the character does not know

Dramatic irony

A person, a place, an object, or event that stands for something beyond itself

Symbol

Details that appeal to the five sense that help the reader to see the story in their mind

Imagery

Sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

What are the 5 sense

Time, place, season, weather, societal conditions, and mood/atmosphere

Setting

The feeling or atmosphere created for the reader. Pay attention to setting.

Mood

The life lesson/ universal message the author wants the reader to learn by the end of the story. Theme should be written as a statement.

Theme

Excitement or tension that readers feel as they wait to find out how a story ends or how a conflict is resolved

Suspense