Transcript Game

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Grade Jeopardy
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Authors
Purpose/Main
Idea
Propaganda
Foreign
Phrases
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A person in a story, a play, or other literary
work. May also be an animal, a thing, or a
natural force such as a flood or blizzard.
Character
The ways in which a writer reveals the
personality of a character. Writers reveal
characters in two different ways:
direct characterization and indirect
characterization
Characterization
A method in which the writer tells readers
directly what a character is like. Example:
“Teddy was the smartest person I ever
knew.”
Direct
Characterization
A method in which the writer shows what
a character is like and lets readers draw their own
conclusions.
There are five basic ways that a writer can show
characterization indirectly:
• Describing the character’s appearance
• Showing the character in action
• Allowing us to hear the character’s words
• Revealing the character’s thoughts and feelings
• Showing how others react to the character
Indirect
Characterization
The reasons a character behaves in a
certain way. A character’s motives may
arise from feelings, experiences, or
others’ actions
Motivation
What happens in a story, novel, play, or
narrative poem. It is the chain of related
events that makes up a story
Plot
A struggle between characters or between
opposing forces. An external conflict takes
place between two characters, between a
character and a group, or between a character
and something else—such as a monster or a
sandstorm. An internal conflict takes place
within a character’s mind or heart. A story
may have more than one
Conflict
Hints or clues that suggest what
will happen later in a story. Helps
to build suspense.
Foreshadowing
The part of the story in which
remaining questions are
answered and loose ends of the
plot are tied up. The resolution
usually comes at the end of the
story.
Resolution
The most exciting or
suspenseful part of a
story. Something happens
that reveals how the
conflict will turn out.
Climax
The main reason he or she has for writing.
The three basic purposes are to inform, to
persuade, and to entertain.
Author’s
Purpose
Professor Howard Gardner believes that
people are smart in different ways. In his
studies, he found many different kinds of
intelligence. For example, some people
have interpersonal intelligence. This
means that they work well with others.
They are also good at sensing other
people’s feelings. Counselors and teachers
have this kind of intelligence.
The author wrote this mostly to
inform the reader that people
can be smart in many different
ways.
The writer’s most important point.
What the paragraph mostly about
Main Idea
In school, kids used to call Michael
Jordan “baldhead” because of his short
hair. They would rub his head and
call him names. Although he loved
basketball, he had to work hard on his
skills. His brother often won the games
they played in their backyard basketball
court. In the tenth grade, Jordan tried
out for varsity basketball but didn’t make
the cut. This beginning was definitely not
an indication of things to come.
Main Idea:
Michael Jordan struggled early
in life and didn’t start out being
one of the best players.
an educated guess, about
something the writer doesn’t say
or explain.
Making Inferences
information that is spread for a
purpose of promoting some
cause.
Propaganda
idea that everyone is doing
this, or everyone supports
this person/cause, so should
you.
BANDWAGON
the celebrity endorsement of a
philosophy, movement or candidate. In
advertising, for example, athletes are
often paid millions of dollars to promote
sports shoes, equipment and fast food.
TESTIMONIAL
grassroots and all-American.
the candidate or cause is
identified with common people
from everyday walks of life.
PLAIN FOLKS
the candidate/speaker attempts to
persuade us through the indirect
use of something we respect, such
as a patriotic or religious image, to
promote his/her ideas
TRANSFER
unconditional authority
Origin: French.
Direct Translation: White card
carte blanch
1.the illusion of having previously
experienced something actually
being encountered for the first
time.
2.disagreeable familiarity or
sameness
Origin: French.
Direct Translation: to have
seen before
déja vu
1. the theory or system of government
that upholds the autonomous character of
the economic order, believing that
government should intervene as little as
possible in the direction of economic
affairs.
2. the practice or doctrine of
noninterference in the affairs of others,
esp. with reference to individual conduct
or freedom of action.
Origin: French. Direct Translation:
Allow to act
laissez-faire
an accomplished fact; a thing
already done:
The enemy's defeat was a fait
accompli long before the formal
surrender.
Origin: French.
Direct Translation: Already done
fait acompli
1. an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the
like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or
anyone else; stroke of genius:
Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
2. a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling
a difficult situation:
The way the president got his bill through the Senate was
a tour de force.
3. a feat requiring unusual strength, skill, or ingenuity.
Origin: French. Direct Translation: Tower of force
tour de force