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SVOs Santa Coins a Story Stuff Phrase Finding Patterns Potpourri 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 SVOs - 1 Did you hear the news? This is what the whole sentence has been talking about. SVOs - 1 What is the Subject? SVOs - 2 Ready, set, hike! This part of the sentence is the wide receiver for the subject, catching the action verb. SVOs - 2 What is the Direct Object? SVOs - 3 Thanks for the flattery, but this part of the sentence—following a ‘be’ verb—describes the subject. SVOs - 3 What is the Subject Complement? SVOs - 4 The least important part of the subject, verb, object tandem, this part of the sentence tells us the reason that the direct object is receiving the action verb. SVOs - 4 What is the Indirect Object? SVOs - 5 Objects and Verbs and Subjects, oh my! This is the pattern in which these three parts of the sentence are usually ordered. SVOs - 5 What are Subject, Verb, and then Object? Story Stuff - 1 This is what Aristotle called the “soul of the story,” or its most important part. Story Stuff - 1 What is the Plot? Story Stuff - 2 What a looker! This part of speech deals with anything that is seen— whether a character’s shoes, his facial expression, or his setting. Story Stuff - 2 What is the Spectacle? Story Stuff - 3 Let me tell you something: the ‘Language’ of a story not only includes verbal language, but also this. Story Stuff - 3 What is Body Language (or NonVerbal Language)? Story Stuff - 4 Using compassion and a sense of wonder, this story term refers to the transformation or “purification” process one undergoes when experiencing a good story (whether fictional or not). Story Stuff - 4 What is Catharsis? Story Stuff - 5 This German term literally means “spirit of the age,” thus referring to the dominant attitudes and philosophies of a given generation and/or culture. Story Stuff - 5 What is Zeitgeist? Santa Coins a Phrase - 1 Whether naughty or nice, if the Independent Clause is the mother, then its child can be called this. Santa Coins a Phrase - 1 What is Dependent Clause? Santa Coins a Phrase - 2 Santa said that he, “Likes eating Mrs. Clause’s cooking.” This is the phrase that defines “eating Mrs. Clause’s cooking.” Santa Coins a Phrase - 2 What is a Gerund Phrase? Santa Coins a Phrase - 3 One of Santa’s reindeer has “a very shiny nose,” and this description of Rudolph is what kind of phrase? Santa Coins a Phrase - 3 What is a Noun Phrase? Santa Coins a Phrase - 4 If Santa throws snowballs at the North Pole, then we can say that “at the North Pole” is what kind of prepositional phrase? Santa Coins a Phrase - 4 What is an Adverb Phrase? Santa Coins a Phrase - 5 “To be or not to be?” Santa said while playing the leading role in the North Pole version of Hamlet. One would need to do this in order to make the first “To be” become an infinitive phrase. Santa Coins a Phrase - 5 What is add another word (Adverb, Verb, or Prepositional Phrase)? Finding Patterns - 1 “To play, to swim, and running” is a bad example of this kind of sentence pattern topic. Finding Patterns - 1 What is Parallel Structure? Finding Patterns - 2 This is the past progressive of the word “hear.” Finding Patterns - 2 What is Was Hearing? Finding Patterns - 3 In the case of an apocalypse, we must “Save the Twinkies, because they are not made anymore.” Tell whether or not the pronoun agrees with what it is referring to. Finding Patterns - 3 What is Yes (they is plural, as is “Twinkies,” the word it is referring to)? Finding Patterns - 4 If you’re saying the same thing over and over while repeating yourself or are excessively being repetitious in a sentence, then you are committing what fatal act of writing? Finding Patterns - 4 What is Redundancy? Finding Patterns - 5 This is the future perfect continuous form of the verb “Poop.” Finding Patterns - 5 What is Will Have Been Pooping? Potpourri - 1 Swing your arms from side to side if you want to be like this video game icon. Potpourri - 1 Who is Mario? Potpourri - 2 While all my exes live in Texas as I try to reach Amarillo by mornin’, this country music legend is madly in love with geography. Potpourri - 2 Who is George Strait? Potpourri - 3 Speaking of being repetitive, name three of the poor souls who have had Mr. Bailey in previous classes to English IV. Potpourri - 3 Who are Courtney, Nacey, Felicia, Jane, Brooke, Alissa, and Katrina? Potpourri - 4 This is the sneaky villain who cost The Wonderful Miss Bumps the championship title to Beastie Broady, even though Bumps had already broken out of Broady’s dreaded Beastie Bear Hug and was about to deliver the Sky High Elbow Drop. Potpourri - 4 Who is Mr. Perkins? Potpourri - 5 This is the town where Mr. Bailey was raised until the day he went to college. Potpourri - 5 What is Lewisburg? Final Jeopardy Make Aristotle proud! These are the six parts of story. Final Jeopardy What are Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Mood, Spectacle?