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Figurative Language
ELA Definitions
Library Learning
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100

A book from this genre might include talking animals, wizards, or magic.

What is fantasy?

100

A comparison of two unlike things using the terms “like” or “as”.

What is a simile?

100

The time and place in which a story occurs.

What is setting?

100

This is the name of SRM’s online library catalog.

What is Destiny?

100

This is a statement made in response to another claim for the purpose of opposing it.

What is counterclaim?

200

This genre of book involves solving a crime, puzzle, or other problem.

What is mystery?

200

These are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

What are hyperboles?

200

This is how the author shows readers what a character in a literary selection is like; in other words, it is how the author creates the people in the book.

What is characterization?

200

This is the area of the library where you would find the call number B LEW.

What is biography?

200

This rhetorical appeal uses facts, logic, and reasons to appeal to the reader or audience's rationality.

What is logos?

300

This genre includes dark, suspenseful, plot-driven stories; they may realistic (ex. murder) or supernatural (ex. ghosts).

What is thriller?

300

The term for a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material thing standing for an abstract concept. 

What is symbolism?

300

This is the main problem in the story that drives the plot.

What is conflict?

300

This is the area of the library where you would find the call number that start with numbers, such as 398.2 ROD, 600 SMI, or 793.7 GIV.

What is nonfiction?

300

This rhetorical appeal is used to persuade the audience based on the speaker's credibility, social standing, and/or knowledge.

What is ethos?

400

This is a type of speculative fiction that deals with futuristic advances in STEM.

What is science fiction?

400

A direct comparison of two things in which they are said to be (in some sense) the same thing.

What is a metaphor?

400

The message or messages an author is trying to convey to a reader in an informational or nonfiction piece of literature. (This is a two-word answer!)

What is main or central idea?

400

What area with picture books have call numbers that start with "E"?

What are Everybody books?

400

A technique used to make the audience feel a certain way by eliciting an emotion(s).

What is pathos?

500

This genre consists of books that contain stories that could actually happen and are true to life.

What is realistic fiction?

500

Words that are usually common to speakers of certain languages or regions that may be different from their literal meaning, for example, "It's raining cats and dogs!"

What is idiom?

500

The message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work.

What is theme?

500

This rainbow pinwheel icon in Classlink contains the resources we use for online research in the SRM library.

Mackin

500

The writer uses this information to support their argument and help the reader form an opinion or reach a conclusion.

What is evidence?

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