The problem or problems in the story.
What is conflict?
The horse's home is in a natural area in Italy.
You could prove this.
What is a fact?
Uses signal words like first, second, next, last
What is sequential order?
This type of figurative language compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
He traveled through the Grand Canyon and also studied the cultures of some of the Native Americans he met.
Find the meaning of cultures: a) buildings b) plants c) societies d) writings
What is societies?
It is the positive or negative meaning of a word.
What is a connotation?
Seeing a narwhal in the ocean is an exciting event.
Seeing a narwhal in the ocean is an exciting event.
What is an opinion?
Explains how to fix a problem and uses words like solve, issue, solution, problem
What is problem and solution?
What type of figurative language is this?
The sidewalk was as hot as the sun.
What is simile?
The Grand Canyon may be millions of years old, but people have only inhabited it for a few thousand years.
Decide the meaning of inhabited.
What is lived in?
The turning point, or highest point of conflict in a story.
What is the climax?
The temperature of the Arctic Ocean is near freezing.
What is a fact?
You could prove this.
Explains how things are the same and different and uses words like alike, different, in contrast, similarly.
What is compare and contrast?
What type of figurative language is this?
The girl was a monster to everyone she didn't get along with.
What is a metaphor?
A rival company built a structure of a castle that was the size of a football field and weighed 19,000 tons.
What does rival mean? a) competing b) helping c) different d) recent
What is competing?
The feeling that the author creates in a story.
What is the mood?
If you were a fish, one of the last birds you would want to see flying overhead is a hungry osprey.
If you were a fish, one of the last birds you would want to see flying overhead is a hungry osprey.
What is an opinion?
What is cause and effect?
What type of figurative language is this?
"If you make me carry my heavy backpack home, I will break my back."
What is hyperbole?
After this, they make a rough outline of the shape they will carve.
Which sentence uses rough the same way?
a) A chunk of coal is a diamond in the rough.
b) The rough seas tossed the boat on the waves.
c) I have had some rough times with my best friend.
d) I have almost finished the rough draft of my essay.
What is I have almost finished the rough draft of my essay?
The cat is meowing at its owner. It is probably hungry.
The first sentence is an observation. The second sentence is an _________.
What is an inference?
Soaring one hundred feet above the water, their sharp eyes watch the surface carefully for any tell-tale signs of fish.
What is a fact?
Describes the steps of doing something, but doesn't necessarily tell them in an order.
What is process?
What type of figurative language is this:
The sunlight danced across my window, waking me up early.
What is personification?
Small containers proclaimed the virtues of the "rose toothpaste" or "cherry toothpaste" inside.
What does proclaimed mean? a) announced b) concealed c) admitted d) shouted
What is announced?