Figurative Language
What is a simile?
Answer: A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What does the author’s purpose mean?
Answer: Why the author wrote the text.
What should you use to support your answer?
Answer: Text evidence.
What does infer mean?
Answer: To figure something out using clues.
Dogs are loyal pets. They help people and are great companions.
Answer: Dogs are loyal and helpful companions.
What is a metaphor?
Answer: A direct comparison.
What are the 3 main purposes?
Hint: Think P.I.E
Answer: Inform, persuade, entertain.
Where do you find evidence?
Answer: In the passage/text.
What does analyze mean?
Answer: To break something down and examine it.
Bees help pollinate plants, which helps flowers grow.
Answer: Bees help plants grow by pollinating them.
“As fast as a cheetah.” is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Answer: A Simile
If a text gives facts about animals, what is the purpose?
Answer: To inform.
How many pieces of evidence do questions often ask for?
Answer: Usually two.
What does evidence mean?
Answer: Proof from the text.
How do you find the main idea?
Answer: Look for what the text is mostly about + key details.
What is personification?
Answer: Giving human traits to non-human things.
If a text tries to convince you to recycle?
Answer: To persuade.
Why is evidence important?
Answer: It proves your answer is correct.
What does theme mean?
Answer: The lesson or message of a story.
What is the main idea of a paragraph mostly about school uniforms?
Answer: School uniforms are important or beneficial.
What does “The wind whispered” mean?
Answer: Personification—the wind is described like a person.
If a story is funny and tells a narrative?
Answer: To entertain.
What’s a good sentence starter for evidence?
Answer: “According to the text…” or "In the text it states....."
What does context clues mean?
Answer: Words around a word that help you figure out its meaning.
Main idea vs detail—what’s the difference?
Main idea = big idea; details = support it.