figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The words describing a picture or graph in a nonfiction text
What is a caption?
Where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is the setting?
It is what the passage or paragraph is mostly about
What is the main idea?
A struggle between a person and an outside force
What is external conflict?
A direct comparison of two different things NOT using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Medicine has a history spanning many thousands of years and specialized establishments for treating the sick have also existed for eons. Despite the fact that function of hospitals have not changed much during the last century, technological and scientific progress has made possible treatment approaches that could not have been implemented a hundred years ago and made a large contribution to health care. The main differences between hospitals today and a century ago are improved surgical techniques, the safer use of anesthesia, and safer childbirth procedures.
Compare and contrast hospitals in the past and present.
-Similarities: keep people safe and healthy
-Differences: improved surgeries, safer anesthesia, safer childbirth
The end of the story where things are resolved
What is resolution?
The reason why an author writes a specific text
What is Author's Purpose?
A sign or warning of what is going to happen next
What is foreshadowing?
Extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
The soft fur of the dog felt like silk against my skin and her black coloring glistened as it absorbed the sunlight, reflecting it back as a perfect, deep, dark mirror.
Name some descriptive words.
silk
glistened
dark
mirror
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 to find out its meaning
What are context clues?
Visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery?
The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia?
Headaches can have several causes. Many people think that the major cause of headache is nervous tension, but there is strong evidence that suggests diet and environment as possible factors. Some people get headaches because they are dependent on caffeine. Other people may be allergic to salt, or they may have low blood sugar. Still other people are allergic to household chemicals including polishes, waxes, bug killers, and paint. If they can manage to avoid these substances, their headaches tend to go away. When a person has recurring headaches, it is worthwhile to look for the underlying cause, especially if the result of that search is freedom from pain.
Name the cause and effect in the passage.
-cause: caffeine, allergies, low blood sugar
-effect: headaches
The lesson or moral of a story
What is theme?
The feeling the author wants the reader to get from reading a text
What is mood?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening in a story
What is inference?
The repeated use of the same consonant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
Last week we installed a kitty door so that our cat could come and go as she pleases. Unfortunately, we ran into a problem. Our cat was afraid to use the kitty door. We tried pushing her through, and that caused her to be even more afraid. The kitty door was dark, and she couldn’t see what was on the other side. The first step we took in solving this problem was taping the kitty door open. After a couple of days, she was confidently coming and going through the open door. However, when we removed the tape and closed the door, once again, she would not go through. They say you catch more bees with honey, so we decided to use food as bait. We would sit next to the kitty door with a can of wet food and click the top of the can. When kitty came through the closed door, we would open the can and feed her. It took five days of doing this to make her unafraid of using the kitty door. Now we have just one last problem; our kitty controls our lives!
Name the problem and solution in the passage.
-problem: the cat was afraid to use the kitty door
-solution: they fed the cat when she came through the closed kitty door
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?
A comparison between two things: _______is to_______as_________is to___________
What is an analogy?