ENGLISH 9 4TH QUARTER

• Reading Comprehension is the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning
• Reading Comprehension relies on two interconnected abilities; word reading and language comprehension
• Word reading - decoding the symbols on the page
• Language comprehension - understanding the meaning of the words and sentences
• 3 comprehension strategies - predicting, summarizing, visualizing
• 2 types of literary analysis - historical analysis and sociological analysis
• Historical Analysis - examines the historical and intellectual factors that led to the creation of the particular literary work on its audience at the time
• Sociological Analysis - investigates the social, cultural, economic and political
• Sensory Images - words in a text that appeal to our five senses
• visual - sight, olfactory - smell, kinesthetic - touch, auditory - hearing, gustatory - taste
• Prose - nonmetric, non-rhythmic, properly constructed and grammatically correct sentences arranged in paragraph
• 4 types of prose - novels, novellas, short stories, and vignettes
• Novels - long fictional work that narrate significant or intimate human experiences
• Novellas - generally shorter than novels
• Short Stories - short fictional works, unified by a single theme or mood
• Vignette - short piece of writing or description
• Vocabulary - a super set of common words that everyone knows
• Jargoon - a type of language among others with its own set of words that are unique
• Utterance - the most basic unit of speech and begins and ends with a distinct pause
• Four main features of utterance: paralinguistic, prosodic, nonfluency, and supplementary
• Levels of utterance: content and feeling
• Apostrophe - something or someone is addressed by the speaker in the poem
• Hyperbole - uses an exaggerated statement
• Imagery - sensory details that help readers to make a mental picture or imagine ideas, people, or settings
• Metaphor - a direct comparison between two things
• Simile - comparison that uses "as" or "like".
• Alliteration - words beginning with the same consonant sounds
• Assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds that begin with different consonant sounds
• Rhyme - involves the use of words that end with the same or similar sounds
• Onomatopoeia - use of words that imitate the sounds they represent
• Who wrote the time machine?

  Herbert George Wells
• Who are the two races in the story time machine?

  Eloi and Morlocks
• What are the three predictions of H.G. Wells?

  1. the use of airplanes in war
  2. a global war
  3. an apocalyptic, post-global-war
• A white Eloi that gives flowers to the traveler - Weena
• What is Weena afraid of?

  Dark
• What are Morlocks afraid of?

  Fire
• Paralinguistic - facial expressions, gestures, postures
• Prosodic - pitch, pausing, tempo, stress, volume
• Nonfluency - pauses, false starts, tag questions, self-corrections
• Supplementary - conjunctions, exclamations, accents, dialects, colloquialism, fillers