Figurative Language
This is the term for an extreme exaggeration:
What is a hyperbole?
What is an inference?
This is the term for the reason an author wrote their piece of work:
This is the term for the overall moral or message of the story:
What is a theme?
This is the number of sentences needed for a R.A.C.E. Response:
What is three sentences?
Here is an example of this type of figurative language:
"The fireplace crackled as we went to sleep."
What is an onomatopoeia?
This is the term used to describe evidence that helps prove the main idea:
What are supporting details?
This is the term for what the text is all about:
What is a central/main idea?
These are the three different types of point-of-view that we have covered in class:
(All points of view need to be listed for points)
What is first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient point of view?
What is tone?
This is the term used when a non-living object is given human-like qualities:
What is personification?
This is the format used for text dependent responses:
What is R.A.C.E? (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain)
These are the five types of author's purposes:
What is Persuade, Inform, Explain, Entertain, and Describe? (PIEED)
This is the format we use to write a fiction summary:
What is SWBSTT (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then, Theme)
This is the term used for evidence that is implied throughout the text
What is implicit evidence?
This is the term used when referencing a well-known person, place, or event:
What is an allusion?
This is the term used to describe sources that favor or are against one topic or another:
What is bias?
This is an example of a domain from a credible/reliable source:
What is .edu or .gov?
This is the term for the feeling the text gives the reader:
What is mood?
This is the term used to described trustworthy sources of information:
What is credible/reliable?
This is the term when the expression is quite different from it's literal meaning:
What is an idiom?
This is the term used for a type of evidence that is directly stated into the text:
What is explicit evidence?
What is the format we use to write a non fiction summary?
TAAMIO (Title, Author, Author's Purpose, Main Idea, Important Details, Organization)
This is the term to describe details that the author uses that activate the five senses:
What are sensory details?
These are the meanings of each letter used in R.A.C.E Responses: