What does it mean to paraphrase?

To restate all the information in the text in your own words

The feeling of suspense in a horror story intensifies when ____________

the reader expects horrible events to occur

What is the controlling idea?

The opinion/thesis of the author

Where do Horror stories usually take place?

Dark and scary places that create fear

What strategies could help you find the main idea?

Try to summarize the text in your own words

What is a Literary Criticism?

An essay that critiques a topic or genre

What is the author's purpose in writing a Literary Criticism?

To critique a genre or a piece of writing

What does it mean to summarize?

To write the most important parts of a text

What does suspense do in a horror story?

The reader feels and anticipates that something bad is about to happen

What is an appositive?

Extra information about the first noun

What is the definition of the central/main idea?

The thesis statement of an essay

Third Person Omniscient Point of View is _________

A narrator that knows all the characters feelings

First Person Point of View is ______

When the narrator is a character in the story

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1
What strategy do you use to write a summary?
BME
Hook, Background, Thesis
ACE/RACE
BMI
2
What is a noun?
Person, Place, Thing
Person, Place, Theme
An Action
Person, Play, Thing
3
What does it mean to paraphrase?
To write down the information of a paragraph word for word
To summarize
The conflict of the story
To restate all the information in the text in your own words
4
Horror stories are meant to entertain
False
True
5
The feeling of suspense in a horror story intensifies when ____________
the characters avoid going into places like basements
the story takes place in a cheerful setting
the reader expects horrible events to occur
the monsters in the story are unfamiliar to the reader
6
What genre has a controlling idea?
Horror Fiction
Science Fiction
Non-Fiction
Realistic Fiction
7
What acronym do we use to remember the conjunctions?
SCR
ACE
ECR
FANBOYS
8
What is the controlling idea?
The opinion/thesis of the author
The theme of the story
To paraphrase
To summarize
9
Where do Horror stories usually take place?
Bright, shining, beautiful days
In outer space or the future
In a cemetery or space ship
Dark and scary places that create fear
10
What strategies could help you find the main idea?
Try to summarize the text in your own words
Chunk the text
Read the last few sentences
Count the stanzas
11
Are central and main idea the same?
No
Yes
12
What strategy do you use to write a summary for an informational text?
BME
Look at the main idea
Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then
Look at the first and last sentence of a paragraph
13
What is an unreliable narrator?
A narrator that tells the story
A narrator you can't trust
A narrator that tells the truth
A narrator you can trust
14
Are the main idea and thesis the same?
No
Yes
15
What is a Literary Criticism?
An essay that critiques a topic or genre
An essay that entertains
The horror genre
A movie critic
16
What is the author's purpose in writing a Literary Criticism?
To critique a genre or a piece of writing
To write an ECR
To write an essay
To entertain us
17
What does PIE stand for?
Persuade, Inform, Exit
Purpose, Inform, Entertain
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
Purpose, Irony, Entertain
18
What does it mean to summarize?
To write the most important parts of a text
To write BME
To write the thesis
To rewrite the text in your own words.
19
What does suspense do in a horror story?
It helps the reader understand what is about to happen
It doesn't do anything
The audience knows what is going on
The reader feels and anticipates that something bad is about to happen
20
What is an appositive?
Information about an action
Extra information about the first noun
Extra information about the first verb
Person, Place, Thing
21
What is the definition of the central/main idea?
The theme in a story
The topic of the text in an essay
The thesis statement of an essay
The beginning of an essay
22
Third Person Omniscient Point of View is _________
A narrator that knows all the characters feelings
A narrator that only knows one characters feelings
A narrator that is a character in the story
A narrator that can't be trusted
23
First Person Point of View is ______
When the narrator is a character in the story
When the characters break the forth wall and talk to the audience.
When the narrator only knows the feelings of one character
When the narrator is an outside observer
24
What are the elements of Horror Fiction?
Setting, Suspense, Theme
Monsters, Ghost, Space, and computers
Monsters, Horror, spooky
Monsters, Literary Criticism, Dark Places
25
What is author's purpose?
The theme of a story
The reason for writing
The summarizing of a text
The author's point of view

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