Figuratively Speaking
Reading is Fundamental
And Then There Were Two
Solid Gold
This & That
100
As if it were a person
What is personification?
100
a category of text, such as fiction and nonfiction
What is genre?
100
Analyzing similarities and analyzing differences
What are compare and contrast? or What are comparison and contrast?
100
an overview of a text
What is a summary?
100
To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text
What is an inference?
200
A comparison using like or as
What is simile?
200

The ______ of a literary text is its lesson or message.

A _______ is the definitive and unifying theme or idea of a story or article. It includes all that necessary to create a coherent main idea.

What is theme or central idea?
200
A statement that can be proven and a statement that can be proven
What are fact and opinion?
200

Something that proves or demonstrates the truth of something else

Hint: Cite

What is evidence?

or

What is text evidence?

200

Using information that is implied or inferred to make meaning out of what is not clearly stated

What is drawing conclusions?
300
A direct comparison that states (describes) one thing as another
What is a metaphor?
300
the series of events that form a story in a specific order
What is plot?
300
A meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word and the explicit meaning of a word
What are connotative meaning and denotative meaning?
300
words or phrases that surround another word or phrase and help explain its meaning
What is context?
300

Situation, development, or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and can often be amusing as a result

What is irony?
400
The use of the same sound to start several words in a row
what is alliteration?
400

This depends upon who the narrator is and how much he or she knows.

Hint: the perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view?
400
A relationship where one thing causes another thing to happen
What is cause and effect?
400
A word or phrase that links one idea to another
What is a transition?
400

to be a warning or indication of (a future event)

What is foreshadowing?
500
Two things: Exaggeration for effect and words that sound like their actual names
What is hyperbole and onomatopoeia?
500

Making a reference to something without mentioning it explicitly

For example: He did not want to give gifts to anyone at Christmas; he was being a scrooge.

What is an allusion?
500
The author's intention for his or her text and the opinion of the author
What are author's purpose and author's point of view?
500
Drafting, revising and editing, proofreading, and publishing
What is the writing process?
500
In an essay, this helps to explain ideas and information clearly
What is organization?
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