Fundamentals - MidTerm - 3rd Period Flashcards
What is another word for the “beginning” of the plot structure?
expostition
What is the FIRST step in the writing process?
Prewriting
What is the term for when a teacher assigns you a topic for your essay?
Prompt
Who designed the Plot Structure?
Freytag
What is the term for the reason you write an essay?
Purpose for writing
What is the term for when the story begins to wind down?
Falling action
What is the step in which “you look for any MISTAKES you have made?
proofreading
What is a collection of sentences about the same topic?
paragraph
What is the step in which “you make any changes in wording or structure”?
Revising
In a Tell-Tale Heart - - How did the man feel when he saw the eye?
angry
What is good to use when writing about events in history or steps in a process?
Chronological Outline
In a Tell-Tale Heart – What did the old man have an eye of?
a vulture
What is a plan for writing called?
Outline
In a Tell-Tale Heart - - How did the storyteller feel in the beginning of the story?
Nervous
What is the term for the high point of the story?
climax
What person was the story a Tell-Tale Heart told in?
1st person
At what point in the story is the characters and setting established?
exposition
What is the term for the series of events in a story?
plot
when Edgar Allan Poe born?
January 19, 1809
In what part of the story is the MAIN character in crisis?
The rising action
What is the following an example of:
“suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at the chamber door . . .”
onomatopoeia
What is the following an example of:
“While I nodded, nearly napping . . . “
alliteration
In what part of the story is the main character aware a conflict has arisen and takes some kind of step to battle the crisis?
rising action
In what part of the story does a crisis resolution happen?
falling action
What is the turning point in a story that may be either physical or emotional?
climax
What is the following an an example of:
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary . . “
rhyme
Who did Poe live with?
John and Frances
How old was Pie when he was orphaned?
2 years old
where does the Storyteller in aTell-Tale Heart sit with the police so they can rest their fatigues?
in the old man’s kitchen
In the story A Tell-Tale Heart - - Where does the storyteller tell the police that the old man has gone?
absent in the country
In the story A Tell-Tale Heart, how many nights does it take the storyteller to kill the old man?
8 nights
Did Poe like his guardians?
no - - he refused to take their name
Did Poe’s guardians formally adopt him?
NO
What relation was Poe’s wife - - he married his ??????
cousin
What was the name of Poe’s wife?
Virginia
What was the Tell-Tale Heart?
The man’s beating heart
What is the term for diagrams or drawings which help organize a writer’s ideas?
Graphic organizer
What is the term for an essay whose purpose is to convince people to agree with the writer about a specific issue?
persuasive essay
What is the term for the formation of the word from a sound associated with what is named?
BANG - - BAM - - CREAK - - WHOOSH
Onomatopoeia
What is the term for a graphic organizer that show the relationship between two events or conditions when one makes the other happen?
Cause and effect
What is the term for the graphic organizer that identifies who, what, where, when, why?
5 W’s chart
What part of speech is a person, place or thing?
noun
What part of speech is a word used in Place of one or more nouns?
pronoun
What is the term for a graphic organizer that lists events in the order they occurred?
sequence
What is the term for an essay who purpose is to present information to the reader?
informative essay
What is the term for a graphic organizer that lists the details of the sights, tastes, smells, touches and sounds of a topic?
sensory chart
What is the term for the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely related words?
Peter Picked Plenty of Pickles
Alliteration
What is the part of speech that modifies a noun or pronoun - it answers the questions: What kind? Which one(s)? How many? How much?
Adjective
What is the term for an essay that tells a story?
Narrative
What is the part of speech that tells an action a subject is performing, has performed, or will perform?
Verb
What is the term for the first step in the writing process in which you prepare to write by talking, thinking, and reading about possible writing topics?
Prewriting
What is the term for the graphic organizer often used to compare the likeness and differences of two or more subjects?
Venn diagrams
What is the term for a way of coming up with ideas by recording your words or thoughts?
brainstorming
What is the term for the correspondence of sound between words, or the ending words.
Roses are red, Violets are BLUE
Sugar is sweet and so are YOU.
rhyme
What should all descriptive essays contain?
A GREAT DEAL OF DETAILS
What is your job - - when your write a descriptive essay?
To set a scene - - draw a picture
Be able to give examples of collective nouns.
Things with more than 3 things in a group
Grandchildren Class Flock Family Herd Jury Fleet Club
Be able draw an example of a graphic organizer.
The spider - - Venn diagram
In MLA format - - what are the 4 items that SHOULD be listed at the top of a written paper?
Name
Class
Teacher
Date
In MLA format - - what should the margin setting be?
1 inch on each side
In MLA format - - What is the correct in text citations?
After a quote - but before the period (authors name and page_
What are a header and footer?
Header - - author’s name
Footer - -
Where and what is a thesis statement?
It is found in the 1st paragraph
A Thesis sentence states what you want your readers to know, believe, or understand after reading your essay
Be able to give example of interjections
Eek! Ouch! Wow!!! Darn!!! Oops!! Hurray!! Hey!
Be able to give examples of conjunctions.
AND - BUT - OR - NOR - YET - FOR - SO
