English Reviewer

Check the meaning:

Dramatic Reading - A public reading or recitation of a work of literature (as a poem or play).
Characterization - The way a writer reveals the personality of a character by providing a description.
Folktale - a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
Speaker - The voice talking to us in a poem.
Sequence - Order of events in narrative or informative texts.
Autobiography - The story of an individual's life.
Haiku - Poetic form unique to Japan.
Adjectives - Modify nouns and their equivalents.
Skimming - A reading strategy by reading only the main ideas.
Tricksters - A person who cheats or deceives people.

Reading Selection:
The Author of Life - The God who Dreamed - Max Lucado
My Poetry - Takamura Kotaro
Scanning the Heavens - (from Science in Ancient China by George Beshore)
The Fly - (Vietnamese folk tale, retold by Mai Vo-Dihn)
On Self-Knowledge - kahlil Gibran

Selected Vocabularies:
Lingering - lasting for a long time or slow to end. (Remaining)
Coincide - occur at or during the same time.
Bowels - the deep or innermost part. (Literary)
Infinite - limitless or endless.
Study the Construction:

Personal Pronouns
- refers to a specific person or thing.
Subjective Case - Subject of the Sentence.
Objective Case - Object of a verb, preposition, or infinitive phrase.
Possessive Case - Indicates ownership.

Nouns
- words used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
A. Subject of the Sentence - What (or who) the sentence is all about.
B. Direct Object - What (or who) receives the action of the verb.
C. Indirect Object - To/for what or to/for whom the action of the verb is done.
D. Object of the Preposition - Preceded by a preposition such as to, for, of, in, on, and from.
E. Subject Complement - (Predicate nouns) They complement the subject of the sentence.
F. Object Complement - Refers back to the direct object of the sentence.
G. Appositive - A noun placed beside another noun or pronoun to rename, identify, or explain it.

Adjectives: Attributive and Predicate

- Adjectives may be classified according to their position in the sentence.
Attributive Adjectives - appear directly beside the word they modify.
Predicate Adjectives - come after a linking verb. They modify the subject of the sentence

examples of linking verbs:

is, are, was, were, verb be.
Sounds, Tastes, Looks, Feels
Smells, Seems, Becomes,
Grows, Keeps, Appears