Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is below:
Her eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky
An action word
Verb
What an authors is trying to convince the reader to think or do
Claim
Category or type of literature. Ex: Romance, Sci-fi...
Genre
repeating a word, phrase, or idea
repetition
The tree branches danced in the wind.
personification
A person, place, thing, or idea
a noun
Author's own account of his/her life own life
Autobiography
What plot element is the setting, characters, and background information?
exposition
What does the root "graph/gram" mean?
To write
What is comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
What the subject of a sentence does
predicate
When the author of an argument states what the opposite side believes.
Counterclaim
When the problem of a story is at its peak.
Climax
How a character in a story thinks or feels about specific events
Point of view or Perspective
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
simile
The who or what of a sentence
subject
Story of a person's life written by someone else
Biography
the message about life, lesson, or moral of a story
theme
What does the root "micro" mean
Words chosen to paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Different words that have the same or similar definitions
synonyms
Words taken from a text to support and author's claim
Text Evidence or Support
Person telling the story
Narrator
A one sentence explanation that tells what a nonfiction text is mainly about
central idea
The piece of punctuation that shows evidence copied from a text
quotation marks
Words used to smoothly move between paragraphs or ideas in an essay.
Transition Words
The initial problem that starts the action of the story moving
Rising Action
The attitude of the speaker or the author in a work of literature
tone
the type of figurative language where an object is given human traits
personification
Direct conversation between characters in a story
Dialogue
Kind of writing that expresses (or 'says') a person's viewpoint
Argumentative or Persuasive Writing
The satisfactory ending of a story, this is not always happy.
Resolution
When the author gives a hint to the reader about events that will happen in a text
Foreshadowing