ELA flashcards
(29 cards)
What are folktales?
Folktales are stories that originate from popular culture. They usually teach lessons about right and wrong.
What are tricksters?
Tricksters are usually main characters that try to outsmart other characters with their tricks.
Humor
Humor is used by writers to amuse readers.
Exaggeration
Extreme overstatements.
Irony
A contrast in which reality is the opposite of what it seems to be.
Mood
Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates through descriptive words, imagery, and figurative language.
Tone
How writers and tellers of tales express their attitude towards their subject.
Scurry
Scurry means to move quickly, at a frenzied pace, and often also implies the urge to hide.
Ex: When you come upon a mouse in your house, chances are it will scurry away.
Procession
A line or group of people moving together in a deliberate way is a procession.
Ex:A procession of mimes walking through the streets of your town would be surprising and somewhat terrifying.
Dignified
Dignified means self-respecting and worthy.
Ex:If you want to have a dignified memorial service, skip the karaoke machine and instead softly play the favorite music of the person you’re remembering.
Upright
something that’s upright stands straight up.
Ex:When you sit upright, your back is straight and vertical. Even your grandmother would approve of your posture.
Scurry-Diction
Verb
Procession-Diction
Noun
Dignified-Diction
Verb
Upright-Diction
Adjective/Adverb
Paragraph 3-Predict-What do you think will happen next?
Due to the delicious smell of the chicken leg, Goha’s wife will eat the Chicken leg.
Paragraph 5-Put yourself in the wife’s situation. How would you handle the problem?
I would handle the problem by owning up to my own actions.
How does this folktales setting help shape plot events?
Goha being at the butchers shop early on helps foreshadow the butcher solving the conflict later on.
In paragraph 5, what moment of discovery causes Goha’s wife to lie to Goha about the calf’s legs? Explain.
When the text states:”And suddenly there was nothing more to taste. She had eaten the entire calf’s leg!”
Reread the couple’s argument in paragraphs 8–14. What impact does the author’s repetition of certain words and phrases have on tone?
It helps with the tone the author wants the reader to know they are going for and the mood of the story in the current time that the couple is fighting.
How do the characters’ traits shape the plot of this story?
1.Cause:The chicken leg smell extremely good Effect:The wife eats the chicken leg
2.Cause:The crowd passes by the butchers shop Effect:The butcher is able to reveal Goha is correct
3.Cause:Goha buys from the butcher in the beginning Effect:The butcher can solve the conflict by revealing the truth.
Effect of setting on plot
Setting can help foreshadow later moments in the plot.
Repeitition of words
Repetition of words can help express the tone more of the author in the given situation.
How the character’s traits shape plot
Based on an characters actions, it can help shape the plot, and a characters actions can usually come from their traits.
