Do Now: Hand in “Monkey’s Paw” questions, take a blank Bingo board, fill in all 25 boxes with any of these 25 terms in any order… 1. Inference 2. Prediction 3. Connection 4. Exposition 5. rising action 6. Climax 7. falling action 8. Resolution 9. Setting 10. Indirect characterizatio n 11. Direct characterizatio n 12. Theme 13. Dialogue 14. Mood 15. Foreshadowing 16. Symbolism 17. First person POV 18. Second person POV 19. Third person limited POV 20. Third person omniscient POV 21. Man vs. man 22. Man vs. self 23. Man vs. society 24. Man vs. nature 25. Situational irony 26. Dramatic irony 27. Verbal irony
Dialogue EX: Hi have you seen my cat Bob said. No Bill said I have no idea where your cat is. If you see my cat will you let me know Bob questioned looking sad. Of course Bill replied with a tone of concern.
1. New Speaker, New Line Hi have you seen my cat Bob said. No Bill said I have no idea where your cat is. If you see my cat will you let me know Bob questioned looking sad. Of course Bill replied with a tone of concern. Each new line should be indented
2. All speech should be in quotation marks “Hi have you seen my cat” Bob said. “No” Bill said “I have no idea where your cat is.” “If you see my cat will you let me know” Bob questioned looking sad. “Of course” Bill replied with a tone of concern.
3. Use Proper Punctuation “Hi, have you seen my cat?” Bob said. “No,” Bill said. “I have no idea where your cat is.” “If you see my cat will you let me know?” Bob questioned, looking sad. “Of course,” Bill replied, with a tone of concern. Need SOME punctuation inside your quotation marks comma, like in line 2 question mark, like in line 3 period, like in line 2 * periods belong at the END of a sentence
Show Don’t Tell TELL: She was scared. SHOW: Sweat dripped down her brow as her heart raced. TELL: They drove there. They talked in the car. They got there and get out of the car. SHOW: Jessie tried to focus on the road, but she was distracted by the funny stories Amy told. Amy was always the funny sister. Before they knew it, they were turning into the parking lot of their destination. Unbuckling themselves and opening the doors, they prepared themselves for what came next. *Before you finalize your story, go back and find 2-3 moments that you can SHOW me instead of TELLING me. Add descriptions/images, make it so that the reader is seeing through the character’s eyes, not just hearing a summary of what happened.
Vocabulary Write a short story of at least 10 sentences using 7 of our vocabulary words in context. Underline all 7 words. Make a small sketch/image to go along with your story. Image should be somehow related to your story. Pay attention to HOW you are using each word. Please ask questions if you are unsure about anything. 1 word from List 1: Argument, tone, integrate, draw, connotation 2 words from List 2: Figurative, cite, explicit, foreshadowing, structure 4 words from List 3: Paraphrase, script, articulate, genre, satire