Figurative Language
Compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
The culmination of all the story's events and the most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
A place where you can find the definitions in a text book.
What is the glossary?
What is compare and contrast?
What is a noun?
An exaggeration that can't possibly be true.
What is a hyperbole?
Words that appear under a picture and explain the picture.
What is the caption?
When the author tries to describe an event and the effect that followed after.
What is cause and effect?
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Giving something unhuman, actual human characteristics.
What is personification?
The end of the story.
What is the resolution?
Gives the reader an idea of what each section of the informational text is about.
What are headings?
When the author tries to lay out a list of steps or the chronological order of events.
What is sequential order?
A word that descibes a noun.
Comparing two things that are not alike to suggest they have something in common.
Waht is a metaphor
The beginning of the story.
What is the exposition?
The three forms of author's purpose.
What is to entertain, persuade, and inform?
When the author tries to show characteristics or details about something.
What is descriptive?
and, but, or
What are conjuctions?
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
What is onomatopoeia?
The main conflict is resolved, but a few loose ends still need to be tied up.
What is the falling action?
Located at the front of the book, this explains to the reader the page number and ideas covered in the book.
What is a table of context?
When the author tries to show a problem and at least one solution for it.
What is problem and solution?
A word that can take the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?