September ELA Assessment Flashcards
What is Mood in literature?
How does the author want the reader to feel?
What is Tone in literature?
What is the author’s opinion?
Whose “side” are they on? What is their attitude?
In what genre of literature can Tone mostly be found or felt?
Non-fiction.
In what genre of literature can Mood mostly be found or felt?
Fiction.
How is Tone or Mood shown in literature?
Punctuation,
Word choice (positive or negative?),
Figurative language,
Imagery/setting,
Dialogue.
What is the theme in literature?
The message in a literary work.
What makes something qualify as a theme? (Rules for theme)
Expressed as a general statement (one sentence),
About life, the world and humanity,
It can be applied to multiple works,
It is implied.
What do prepositions do in a sentence, what are the exceptions?
Shows position.
Exceptions:
About,
During,
For (sometimes a conjunction)
To (sometimes an adverb)
Of
Except
What makes up a prepositional phrase?
Preposition + (optional) modifiers + noun/pronoun.
What can the adverb “To” be used as?
To represent an infinitive.
e.g. “To cry”
Why should we annotate text?
To summarise,
Understand better,
Focus,
Prepare for discussion,
Prepare for writing,
How should we annotate text? What should we annotate?
Write definitions of unknown words,
Tone and mood,
Literary elements (setting, conflict, characterisation)
Figurative language,
Sound devices (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, etc.)
Rhetorical devices (Ethos, pathos, logos)
Questions,
Connections between other literature and itself.
When are italics and quotation marks in titles of literature?
Longer works should be italicised (books, plays, newspapers, movies, websites, long poems[epics], etc.)
Shorter works should be in quotation marks
(songs, articles, chapters, episodes, short poems.
What do adverbs show in a sentence? What do they affect?
Where (places)
When (time)
How (manner)
How much (condition)
How often
Adverbs affect verbs, other adverbs and adjectives.
How do you do parenthetical citations?
“Quote” (Author Page).
Only put punctuation at the end of a quote if it’s not a period.
What do adjectives do in a sentence?
Adjectives describe pronouns or nouns, telling which one, what kind and how many.
What are interjections?
A group of words which express emotions. Interjections are stand-alone but aren’t considered sentence fragments.
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing or idea.
e.g. Bus driver, school, vegetable, time. (respective)
What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun or renames it.
e.g. I, me, you, they, etc.
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases or clauses.
What is a dependent clause?
A group of words that contain a subject and a verb but don’t make sense on their own because it starts with a conjunction.
e.g. “After he finished school.”
What is an independent clause?
A group of words that contain a subject and a verb that make sense on their own.
e.g. “Iane ate pasta.”
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A coordinating conjunction is a word which joins a dependent clause and an independent clause together.
Use A WHITE BUS or AWUBIS
Where can different subordinating conjunctions be in a sentence?
IC + Conj. + DC
Conj. + DC + IC
What is a coordinating conjunction?
A word which joins together words, phrases or clauses that are EQUAL in value.
Use FANBOYS
A comma always comes before a coordinating conjunction.
What is a verb?
A word which shows action or state-of-being.
What is a verb phrase?
Multiple verbs in a
sentence.
e.g. “Our team WILL BE PLAYING the Lakers”
What is a helping verb?
A word that “helps” the main verb in a sentence, there may be multiple.
They usually change the tense.
The helping verbs are:
Am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be
have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, could
What is a linking verb?
A word that joins (or links) a noun or pronoun to a word that identifies or describes that noun or pronoun.
Common linking verbs:
am, is, are, was, were, taste, look, smell, sound, feel, remain, appear, grow, seem, become
What are some ways to decide if a verb is linking or action?
Ask yourself,
Is there an object?
Is it linking something after itself back to the subject?
Can you replace it with a more common linking verb (is, are, was, were)
What are some ways to decide if a verb is linking or helping?
Ask yourself,
Is there an action verb that follows it?
Is it alone in the clause?
What is a passive voice in verbs?
A passive voice is when the subject is acted on by the verb. You always use a form of “to be” + the verb’s past participle.
e.g. “Bananas ARE ADORED by monkeys.”
“The money WAS COUNTED by the cashier.”
What is an active voice in verbs?
An active voice is when the subject performs the action.
e.g. “Monkeys ADORE bananas”
“The cashier COUNTED the money”
