Figurative Language
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
The sequence of events in a story
What is the plot?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
An educated guess based on text evidence + your own knowledge
What is an inference?
Giving human qualities to a non-human thing
What is personification?
The time and place where a story happens
What is the setting?
The emotional feeling or association a word carries
What is connotation?
A word that shows action or a state of being
What is a verb?
The life lesson or big message the author wants readers to take away
What is the theme?
An extreme exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
The main problem or struggle in a story
What is the conflict?
Hints in the surrounding sentences that help you figure out an unknown word
What are context clues?
A group of words that has a subject and a verb but is not a complete sentence
What is a fragment? (or dependent clause)
Restating the most important ideas of a text in your own words without opinions
What is a summary? (or objective summary)
A comparison that says one thing is another (no “like” or “as”)
What is a metaphor?
The turning point or highest intensity of the story
What is the climax?
A word that means the opposite of another word
What is an antonym?
Two independent clauses joined correctly with a comma + coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)
What is a compound sentence?
Direct quotes or specific details from the text that support your answer
What is textual evidence?
The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in nearby words
The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in nearby words
How the main conflict is resolved at the end
What is the resolution?
A word part added to the beginning of a root word that changes its meaning (e.g., un-, re-, pre-)
What is a prefix?
The rule that a singular subject needs a singular verb and a plural subject needs a plural verb
What is subject-verb agreement?
The reason an author writes a text (to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain)
What is author’s purpose?