FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
TEXT FEATURES
TEXT STRUCTURES
GRAMMAR
LITERARY ELEMENTS
100
comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
a list of chapters or sections in a book
What is a table of contents?
100
writing that uses sensory details
What is description?
100
is a compound sentence or a sentence with compound parts
What is coordination?
100
time and place
What is setting?
200
a contradiction of words
What is an oxymoron?
200
a paragraph that appears at the beginning of the text
What is an introduction?
200
explains or describes similarities or differences
What is compare/contrast?
200
a modifier that is not near the word that it modifies
What is a misplaced modifier?
200
the way characters are developed
What is characterization?
300
an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
a type of introduction that is written by the author
What is a preface?
300
gives events in the order that they occurred
What is chronological or sequential order?
300
having like grammatical parts joined together
What is parallelism?
300
the perspectative from which a story is told
What is point of view?
400
comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
400
a type of introduction to a book that is often written by someone other than the author
What is a foreword?
400
organizes details, reasons, etc., in order of their importance
What is order of importance?
400
a pronoun that does have a clear antecedent
What is ambiguity?
400
a brief reference to the Bible, mythology, literature, or works of art
What is an allusion?
500
words or a phrase that does not have a literal interpretation?
What is an idiom?
500
a short text written in addition to a main text that give additional informantion
What is sidebar?
500
a relationship that explains how one thing makes something else happen
What is cause and effect?
500
unequal emphasis in a sentence
What is subordination?
500
a hint of something to come
What is foreshadowing?
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