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Type of irony where you say the opposite of what you mean (like sarcasm)
What is verbal irony?
Identify the type of figurative language:
She sang like a bird in the choir last night.
What is simile?
The start of the story, where the main characters and setting are introduced
What is exposition?
How a reader feels about a passage
What is mood?
This type of organizational pattern lists the similarities and differences between two or more topics.
What is compare and contrast?
A phrase that can't be taken literally, but has a well-known figurative meaning
Ex. "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
Identify the type of figurative language:
The jewelry thief is a ghost in the night.
What is metaphor?
The section of the plot where the consequences of the climax are explained
What is falling action?
The attitude of an author toward a subject
What is tone?
This type of organizational pattern describes events in the order they happened.
What is chronological/sequence?
What is the initiating event/inciting incident?
Identify the type of figurative language:
It took you a million years to get here!
What is personification?
The buildup of the story's conflict; the biggest section of the story
What is rising action?
The ideas and emotions associated with a word
What is connotation?
This type of organizational pattern describes an issue and then presents possible ways to fix the issue.
What is problem/solution?
Type of irony where the reader knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Identify the type of figurative language:
The clouds skipped across the sky, eager to reach the horizon.
What is personification?
The most intense and dramatic part of a story
What is the climax?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
This type of organizational writing describes an event and the direct results of that event
What is cause and effect?
Type of irony where the opposite of what you'd expect for a situation happens (like a firehouse burning down)
What is situational irony?
Identify the type of figurative language:
When Wanda wants watermelon, she whirls off to Walmart.
What is alliteration?
What is the resolution?
List the three main purposes for an author to write
What is to entertain, to inform, and to persuade?
This type of organizational pattern gives a great amount of detail about a particular topic or subject
What is description/concept definition?