What is the one way to summarize fiction? Why
is it important to
summarize what we
read?

Cite relevant details from text to support what the text says explicitly and make inferences. Describe in depth a character, setting or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text. Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. 

Fiction can be summarized by creating a synopsis. A synopsis is a brief summary of the plot.

This is a tool that helps readers to understand and identify the most important information within a story. It reduces the amount of unnecessary information and allows the reader to comprehend and retain the story more effectively.

When summarizing fiction in general it is helpful to ask these questions...

Who are main characters?

What do they want/goal?

Why can't they get or achieve it?

How is the problem resolved?

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

consonance, it has the repetition of the consonants in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.