Figurative Language
A comparison between two opposing things using like or as
What is a Simile?
Where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting?
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is main idea?
Which words should be capitalized?
What is proper nouns, I, and the beginnings of sentences?
A struggle between a person or an outside force
What is external conflict?
Visually descriptive language
What is imagery?
The most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax?
The reason an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
Choose the correct word: If he doesn't prepare, he will (lose/loose) the battle.
What is lose?
A sign or warning of what is going to happen next
What is foreshadowing?
The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia?
The main events of a short story
What is plot?
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.`
What is context clues?
(There, Their, They're) hiking Mt. Everest, and when they get to the top, they will drink a Gatorade.
What is they're (they are)?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The lesson or moral of a story
What is theme?
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
Rewrite this sentence correctly:
ms kelly wants to visit the central park zoo in new york city over vacation
What is
Ms. Kelly wants to visit the Central Park Zoo in New York City over vacation.
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied in a story.
What is resolution?
The repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
The perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view?
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
Rewrite this sentence correctly:
Her soup rice and dessert tasted so bland at logan's steakhouse.
What is
Her soup, rice, and dessert tasted so bland at Logan's Steakhouse.
What are the direct words from a text to prove an answer called?
What is textual evidence?