What is a definition
Definitions from feelings
What is connotative meaning?
What is Alliteration?
Fact vs. Opinion
What is facts are proven and opinions are thoughts or feelings.
Characteristics of stories that are similar
What are Genre's?
Always do this before starting to take a test
What is read ALL the DIRECTIONS!
Context vocabulary definition
What is finding the definitions by inferences from the sentence.
The difference between simile and metaphor
Chronological, cause/effect, problem/solution, order of importance, spatial order
What are ways to organization?
What is perspective or point of view?
use of words
What is diction?
Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes
What are Greek and Latin word parts?
Giving traits of humans to other objects or animals
What is personification?
Inform, explain, express, describe, entertain, persuade
What are purposes of articles?
they, he, she
What are first and third person?
What is theme or motif?
The reason we need vocabulary
What is being able to better express yourself?
Extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
adding details together to get meaning
What is a conclusion?
Reading between the or an educated guess
What is inferencing?
Short version of what you are reading focusing on main ideas
What is a summary?
Dictionary Definition
What is denotative meaning?
appealing to the five senses
a sentence that states what the writing is about
What is topic and topic sentence?
The one telling the story
What is the narrator?
Language that uses imagination to improve writings
What is figurative language?