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  • What are the elements of a sonnet?
    14 lines and has a rhyme scheme
  • What literary device is this using? The wind whispered in my ear as I walked home.
    imagery
    personification
    similie
    metaphor
  • What we call clues or hints that something is going to happen.
    An inference
    A metaphor
    An educated guess
    Foreshadowing
  • Revise this sentence: It is a movie that has received many awards, a true Masterpiece of a lifetime.
    Change received to recieved
    Change Masterpiece to masterpiece
    No change should be made in this sentence
    Delete the comma
  • What literary device is used in this sentence? He laughed like a donkey.
    A similie
  • What is forshadowing?
    A hint readers get from the text that infers on something later.
  • What is tone?
    How the story feels
    How the character feels in the story
    The mood of the story
    How I feel while reading
  • What is the definition of irony
    When the opposite of what you expect happens
    A prediction about the text
    When the first letter of each word is the same/repeated
    Comparing not using like or as
  • Revise this sentence: “I am proud of my son’s decision,” she commented, and I think he will always remember the day he chose to attend college at the University of Texas.”
    Change I think to we think
    Change University to university
    Insert quotation marks before and
    No change needs to be made in the sentence
  • What is necessary to be considered a drama?
    A story that is performed anywhere
    Dramatic elements
    A story told through dialogue/action
    A story that is performed on stage
  • How should this sentence be changed? As the young man read old newspaper articles that were published decades before, his eyes was opened to what life was like in the 19th century.
    F Change was opened to were opened
    G Change read to red
    H Change eyes to eye’s
    J Change his to they
  • What does theme mean?
    The events that happen in the text
    The main conflict
    The main idea of the text
    The moral lesson you learn
  • What type of composition would you write for this prompt: "Write about your position on the teaching of banned books in public schools?"
    Your opinion
    Informational
    compare/contrast
    Argumentative
  • What is imagery?
    A picture
    A picture in your mind about the story
    A text feature
    Writing that evokes one of the 5 senses
  • Revise this sentence: At my previous school, where I was captain of the varsity football team I learned a lot about what it means to lead by example.
    Insert a comma after team
    Delete where
    Change a lot to alot
    Change means to should meant
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