figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The main character of the story
Mr. Bittering (Harry)
This sentence tells us what the paragraph will be about
Topic sentence
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Her hair was as golden as the sun
What is a simile?
the color of the blossoms
This type of paragraph includes the hook, background, and thesis/claim
What is an intro paragraph?
Your position or stance on a topic
What is a claim?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
It was so cold that the trees were shivering and the birds put on extra socks
What is personification
the rescuers that finally got to mars felt this way about the martian-people
This type of paragraph includes a reason, evidence, commentary, and closing sentence
What is a body paragraph
a fact or question to engage the reader, or get the reader's attention
What is a hook?
words that mean the opposite
What is an antonym?
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
The reason that the earth people couldn't return/reason why they left earth
What is atomic war?
These punctuation marks are what we use around our evidence so that we aren't stealing someone else's work.
What are quotation marks?
A connection between our reasons and our evidence
What is commentary?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is making an inference?
the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
Sally Sells Seashells By The Sea Shore
What is alliteration
List one difference between the radio play (one minute audio) and the story in our books.
What is -we know more about harry's thoughts and feelings from the book
-the radio play uses silence, music, and pauses to make us feel things
-we don't hear about the children in the radio play
The organization of the 4 elements of an argumentative body paragraph.
1. topic sentence/reason
2. Evidence
3. Commentary
4. Closing sentence
Quotes we get from an article or author are called...
Evidence
Words that mean the same thing
What is a synonym?