figurative Language
What is a metaphor?
When the story is told by one of the characters using the pronouns "I," "me," and "we".
What is first-person POV?
The central thought or message of a passage.
What is the main idea?
This tells the most important part or summary of the entire story.
What is the Main Idea?
The meaning of a word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
"Ashley was as quick as lightning." This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a simile?
True or False: A story can have more than one point of view?
What is true?
Summarizes the most important information from a passage.
What is a summary?
This is the underlying message, moral, or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the Theme?
When a word is unfamiliar, look at these surrounding it to understand its meaning.
What are context clues?
Giving human qualities to non-human objects, such as "the wind howled in the night."
What is personification?
When the narrator uses "he," "she," and "they" to tell the story and focuses on the perspective of only one character.
What is third-person POV?
To find the main idea, look for this in the topic sentence.
What is the central topic?
If a story is about a dog learning to trust a new owner after being abandoned, is the theme "Dogs are pets" or "Love and patience can heal deep wounds"?
What is "Love and patience can heal deep wounds"?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
Extreme exaggeration used to make a point, like "I have a million things to do today."
What is a hyperbole?
This point of view is rarely used in fiction; it addresses the reader directly using the pronoun "you."
What is second-person POV?
Supporting details often do this to the main idea.
What is support?
True or False: A story usually has only one main idea, but can have more than one theme.
What is True?
Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What are synonyms?
he repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is the point of view (POV)?
Identifying this type of detail helps to understand how the main idea is presented throughout the text.
What is a supporting detail?
A boy puts off a 5-page research report until the night before it is due, gets a zero, and is kicked off the basketball team. What is the theme?
What is "Don't procrastinate" or "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today"?
An expression where the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?