Parts of Speech
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
Compares 2 unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A short retelling of a text
What is a summary?
Made up of an independent and dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
The message or moral of a story.
What is theme?
The word expressing action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
Sound words.
What is an Onomatopeia?
The feeling associated with a word.
What is connotative?
A complete thought with a subject and predicate and can stand alone.
What is a simple sentence?
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
A word that replaces a noun
What is a pronoun?
A phrase that has a different meaning than the literal one
What is an idiom?
Dictionary definition
What is denotative?
The noun that a pronoun replaces.
What is an antecedent?
What the text is mostly about
What is main/central idea?
Describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
A dispute
What is an argument?
A sentence that can stand alone.
What is an independent clause?
The story element that resolves the conflict.
What is a resolution?
Joins words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
Gives human characteristics to non-human tings.
What is personification?
Background knowledge plus text evidence
What is an inference?
A word or phrase that tells more about someone or something.
What is an appositive?
Titles, subheadings, bold words, graphs, maps, etc
What are text features?