Figurative Language
She was as happy as a clam
simile
Cats and dogs both make great pets. Cats can use the litterbox indoors, but dogs need to go outside to use the bathroom. Cats purr when they're happy; whereas dogs wag their tails.
compare/contrast
Books that are fake or not true
fiction
What is each row of a poem called?
lines
What the whole story is mostly about
main idea
I had butterflies in my stomach.
idiom
What type of text structure is a recipe?
sequencing
A book about someone's life, written by someone else.
biography
A group of lines separated by spaces. (Hint: it's not called a paragraph in poetry)
stanzas
The moral or lesson of a story
theme
Sally said Sam and I could sell sandwiches on Saturday.
alliteration
How is the following sentence structured?
Jim was texting on his phone and wasn't paying attention to where he was going. Before he knew it, he walked straight into a pole.
cause and effect
A book of true facts and details
nonfiction
When words have the same middle and ending sound.
rhyme
How a text is organized, built, or put together
text structure
The flowers danced in the wind.
personification
Todd was failing reading. The teacher told him if he would take time to check his answers carefully, and read a little each night he could improve his grades.
A story that could not really happen- sometimes has talking animals
fantasy
Name 3 elements of poetry
lines stanzas spaces rhyme rhythm meter
grammar and capitalization rules don't apply
captions
He was a rockstar in class!
metaphor
Jeff was born in 1980. He graduated high school in 1992. After college he got married in 1997 and started his first job in 1999.
Chronological/Sequential Order
A book that has a moral or lesson learned
fable
Rhyming patterns in a poem
A
A
B
A
rhyme scheme
When the narrator is part of the story and clue words like me, my, us, and I are used.
first-person point of view