Sounds Like...
-TION endings
3+ Syllables
The Basics
Mr. T.
100
The author's attitude toward his subject and sounds like phone.
What is tone?
100
Sets the stage for a story.
What is exposiTION?
100
A reasonable conclusion based on clues or facts.
What is inference?
100
Returning to an earlier time in the story.
What is flashback?
100
Chain of events that makes up a story.
What is plot?
200
What the author tries to get across to the reader or also known as the main idea. Sounds like dream.
What is theme?
200
Establishes traits and characteristics.
What is characterizaTION?
200
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes or place.
What is empathy?
200
Comparison between two different things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
200
The person telling the story.
What is narrator?
300
The way the reader feels when reading the story; the feeling created in a literary work. Sounds like food.
What is mood?
300
Ties up loose ends in a story.
What is resoluTION?
300
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
300
A hint or a clue as to what will come later.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The problem or struggle in a story.
What is conflict?
400
Showing good judgment or sense, or based on fact or evidence. Sounds like ground.
What is sound?
400
Additional meanings of a word that are often connected to emotions that help us use the word correctly.
What is connotaTION?
400
Using a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal meaning OR when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.
What is irony?
400
Something that stands for something else.
What is symbol?
400
The person or force opposing the main character.
What is antagonist?
500
An argument made to support a point or what you are trying to prove. Sounds like shame.
What is claim?
500
The literal meaning of a word. The "dictionary definition"
What is denotaTION?
500
A phrase, saying or expression that has a figurative meaning to a particular culture. For example, "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is idiom?
500
Another name for the main character?
What is protagonist?
500
The words and phrases that surround a word and determines its meaning.
What is context?
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