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56 Cards in this Set
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What verb tense do you use when writing a story about something that has already happened to you? |
Past tense |
ALREADY happened. In the _______ |
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What point of view should you use when writing a story about yourself? |
1st person |
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What point of view should you avoid using in essay writing? |
1st person |
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What are the five paragraphs in a five paragraph essay? |
In this order: intro, body1, body2, body3, conclusion |
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What does an expository essay do? |
Investigates a point and presents an argument for or against it. |
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What does a narrative do? |
Tells a story from the authors point of view that happened to the author |
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Typically, where do you put the thesis statement of an essay? |
At the end of the intro paragraph and again in the conclusion |
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Where do topic sentences typically go when writing an essay? |
At the beginning of the body paragraphs |
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Put a comma. .. |
Before any coordinating conjunction that links two independent clauses, after a dependant clause that starts a sentence, to separate items in a series /list, before quotes, to separate two adjectives, when addressing someone or something directly in a sentence. |
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What are the FAN BOYS? |
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
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What do action verbs show? |
Physical and mental action |
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A simple sentence contains. .. |
One independent clause |
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What are the state of being verbs? |
Is, are, was, were, am, been, being |
They show existence |
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What is the struggle between opposing forces? |
Conflict |
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What is the point of highest interest and emotional involvement in the story? |
Climax |
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What is it called when a series of interrelated events reaches some identifiable conclusion? |
Resolution |
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What is a theme? |
A story's main idea |
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What are the four steps you use to determine theme? |
1) read the text 2) create a list of topics 3) choose one topic and write a sentence about what the author believes about that topic 4) cross out "the author believes" |
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In reading, what point of view is used when the story is narrated by the author who reveals the thoughts and feelings of all characters. This narrator uses the third person-he or she- and stands completely outside the story. |
Omniscient |
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In reading, what point of view is used when the story is narrated by a character in the story. A forest person narrator relates personal experience, using "I" |
First person |
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In reading, what point of view is used when the story is narrated by a character in the story. A forest person narrator relates personal experience, using "I" |
First person |
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"The End of Eternal Spring" (Persephone myth): When Persephone realizes something is missing in her life, that is the __________ part of the hero journey |
Call to adventure |
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"The End of Eternal Spring" (Persephone myth): When Hades kidnaps persephone from her favorite meadow and takes her into the underworld, that is the __________ part of the hero's journey. |
Crossing the threshold |
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"The End of Eternal Spring" (Persephone myth): When Hermes delivers the message to hades that he must let persephone go, in the hero's journey, he would be the ___ |
Climax |
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"The End of Eternal Spring" (Persephone myth): When Persephone decides to eat four of the pomegranate seeds and stay with hades in the underworld four months a year as his wife, in the hero's journey the is called ________ |
Transformation? |
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"The End of Eternal Spring" (Persephone myth): when Persephone returns to Demeter and spring returns to earth, in the hero's journey this is called_____, |
The return |
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Who is credited as the author of the Odyssey? |
Homer |
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Who is the God of wind? |
Aeolus |
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How does the God of wind help Odysseus? |
He gives them a bag of bad wind so that there will only be good wind to blow them home |
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What does Circe do with Odysseus' men? |
Turns them into pigs/animals |
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What was the name of the Cyclops whose cave is invaded by Odysseus and his men? |
Polyphemus |
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Penelope is... |
Odysseus' wife |
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What is the name of Odysseus' son? |
Telemachus |
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Who does Odysseus visit in the underworld to help him get home? |
Tiresias |
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Who has died in Odysseus' absence? |
His mother anticlea |
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What does Tiresias warn Odysseus about? |
Don't be greedy and don't eat the cattle |
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When does Hermes help Odysseus? |
When he's climbing the mountain to get his men back from Circe |
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Who is Scylla? |
A monster that lives on one side of a narrow channel |
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Who is Calypso? |
A nymph that keeps Odysseus for part of his journey |
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Who does Odysseus accuse of trying to take his world? |
Antinous |
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Who finally helps Odysseus get back to Ithaca? |
Poseidon |
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Define En Media Res |
Middle, beginning, end |
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What is hubris? |
Excessive pride or self confidence |
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What is the name of the island/state that Odysseus is king of? |
Ithaca |
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Who is the God of the sea? |
Poseidon |
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Define anthropology |
The study of human societies and cultures and their development |
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Define bildungsroman |
A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education |
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Define simile |
A comparison using like or as |
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Define metaphor |
Comparison without using like or as |
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Define motif |
A recurring symbol throughout the story |
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Define epigraph |
A short quotation at the beginning of a book or chapter to suggest it's theme |
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Define foreshadowing |
Hinting at what might happen later in the story |
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Define personification |
Giving human emotions or characteristics to an inanimate object |
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Define vignette |
A brief description, account, or episode |
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What is a subordinating conjunction? |
A conjunction that joins a subordinate clause to a main clause |
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What is an Independent clause? |
A clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence. It contains a subject and a predicate and makes sense on its own |
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