Vocabulary
Perfect happiness or extreme joy
Bliss
The ancient car groaned and sputtered as it climbed the steep hill." What type of figurative language is giving human characteristics to the car?
Personification
While the topic of a story might be "friendship," this term refers to the author's deeper message or life lesson about friendship that the reader learns.
Theme
This point of view uses pronouns like I, me, we, and my to tell the story from the narrator's own perspective.
First person point of view
What punctuation mark is used to combine two closely related independent clauses without using a coordinating conjunction (like and or but)?
Semicolon
to buy or obtain for oneself; to gain control of
Acquire
Identify the literary device used here: "Her voice was music to his ears."
Metaphor
A brief restatement of a text’s main points in your own words—without adding personal opinions or minor details—is called a what?
Summary
If an informational passage explains why something happened and what occurred as a result, it uses this text structure.
Cause and effect
Identify the missing punctuation: "Although it was raining heavily __ we decided to go for a hike anyway."
Comma
To pretend to be affected by a feeling, state, or injury
Feign
"I’ve told you a million times to clean your desk!" What type of hyper-exaggeration is this?
Hyperbole
Mysterious setting descriptions, eerie sound effects, and suspenseful music help create this feeling or emotional atmosphere inside the reader.
Mood
An argument or opinion presented in an informational text that is supported by evidence and reasoning is called the author's what?
Authors claim
"Running quickly through the park, the dog chased the squirrel." What part of speech is the word quickly?
Adverb
Intensely irritated or frustrated
exasperated
When an author gives subtle clues or hints early in a story about events that will happen later, it is known as this.
Foreshadowing
An author's choice of words (diction) reveals their personal perspective or attitude toward the subject matter. This attitude is known as the...
Tone
A narrator who knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters in a story is using this specific point of view.
Third person point of view
Fix the error in this sentence: "Each of the students need to turn in their paper."
Need to Needs
Trivial
In a movie, when the audience knows that the monster is hiding in the closet but the character walking toward it has no idea, this type of irony is created.
Dramatic irony
when the actual outcome of an event is the exact opposite of what was reasonably expected
Situational Irony
A written account of a real person's life story written by that exact same person is called an...
Autobiography
tell the reader precisely when someone else is speaking
Quotation marks