Figurative Language
Her love for her children is as constant as the passing of time.
What is a simile?
A text that offers you a view into someone else's experience.
What is a window book?
When a character suddenly realizes, understands, or finally figures something out.
What is aha moment?
What does STEAL stand for?
What is speak, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?
a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme?
The tall trees were curtains that surrounded us during our picnic.
What is a metaphor?
A fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group.
What is stereotype?
When you are reading and a character says or does something that’s opposite of what they have been saying or doing all along or opposite of what you would expect.
What is contrast and contradictions?
This type of conflict counters a character against some force of nature, such as an animal or the weather.
What is person vs. nature?
Refers to a reader’s ability to create pictures in our heads based on what we read.
What is visualizing?
The computer argued with me and refused to work.
What is personification?
official dictionary definition
What is denotation?
When a word, phrase, object, or situation is mentioned over and over again.
Wilbur fights for his survival against a society that eats pigs in Charlotte’s Web
What is person vs. society?
Use clues from what you HAVE read to make an educated guess about what you WILL read.
What is making predictions?
The concert was so loud the drums echoed in space.
What is hyperbole?
meaning suggested or implied by the use of a particular word, beyond its literal (denotative) meaning
What is connotation?
A device in which the writer places clues in a story to prepare the reader for events that are going to happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
Nick from Heartstopper is unsure about his sexuality.
What is person vs. self?
Motif + Focus Question =
What is theme statement?
The clamoring clash of dished cracking on the concrete burned my ears.
Clique
What is a group of people who share similar interests but do not readily allow others to join their group and has a negative connoation?
Ponyboy says he isn't interested in girls yet. Soda says that he will grow out of it. Soda thinks that eventually he will want to date girls.
What is an example of words of the wiser?
Cyberbullying is an example of...
What is person vs. technology?
Textual Evidence + Background Knowledge =
What is making inferences?