Figurative Language
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is a simile?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
When information in a text is organized in order of when events occur.
What is chronological order?
A tool used to remember coordinating conjunctions: "For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So."
What is FANBOYS?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
Appeals to the audience's emotions. It seeks to evoke feelings such as sympathy, anger, happiness, or fear to persuade the audience.
What is Pathos?
Text structure that discusses similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
What does ACE stand for?
What is Answer, Cite, and Explain.
A punctuation mark used to indicate a pause between clauses or items in a list.
What is comma?
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The underlying message or insight revealed in a story.
What is the theme?
When a text describes an issue and offers one or more ways to solve it.
What is problem and solution?
A graphic organizer used to compare and contrast two items or ideas.
What is a Venn Diagram?
The term for combining two independent clauses with a comma and conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
A structure that explains how one event leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
A process for analyzing poetry, including title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title revisited, and theme.
What is TPCASTT?
A sentence error where two independent clauses are joined without punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
Silly Sam swiftly sang songs.
What is alliteration
A twist in the plot that contradicts the expectations of the characters or audience.
What is irony?
"A passage that presents an issue, such as students losing assignments, and then provides ways to fix it, like using planners and organizing materials."
What is problem and solution?
What is an anchor chart we use for characterization?
What is STEAL?
"This type of clause has a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence."
What is a dependent clause?