Figurative Language
Comprehension terms
Author's Purpose
Types of Literary Elements
Facts, Opinions, Inferences
100
Compares two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Conversation among or between characters
What is dialogue?
100
To inform the reader about certain information or ideas, to entertain the reader with something funny, mysterious or scary, or to persuade the reader to buy or do something.
What is the author's purpose?
100
In what person (first or third) are the sentences written? He fixed his car in two days.
What is third person.
100
True statements that can be proven or measured.
What are facts?
200
Choose simile, metaphor or personification: Ann could hear the screaming of the seagulls.
What is a personification?
200
A category used to classify discourse and literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.
What is genre?
200
Just before Christmas of 1980, I was sitting in the Sevens, a neighborhood bar on Beacon Hill (don't all these stories of revelation begin in bars?), when a house painter named Tony remarked out of the blue that he wanted to find a place to go to mass on Christmas Eve. I didn't say anything, but a thought came into my mind, as swift and unexpected as it was unfamiliar: I'd like to do that too. The author's purpose is to . . .
What is to entertain?
200
What the story is about: it usually has a problem (conflict), a turning point (climax), and a solution (resolution) to the problem.
What is plot?
200
Someone's beliefs that cannot be proven or measured.
What are opinions?
300
Choose simile, metaphor or personification: Hair, like straw, fell to the salon's floor.
What is a simile?
300
The entity that tells the story to the audience.
What is a narrator?
300
Good schools should be part of our children's education. You may ask, how do we build good schools? First, we must meet the basic needs of children. Parents must provide the emotional and physical foundation at home. They should spend time helping children with homework and doing enjoyable things together. Finally, parents and children should worship together at a church service of their choice. The bottom line is that spiritual help is the roof that shelters families from harm. The author's purpose is to . . .
What is to perusuade?
300
What point of view are the sentences written? Eva thought her mother needed hospitalization.
What is third person.
300
Fact or opinion? The retriever is the best dog for children.
What is an opinion.
400
Choose simile, metaphor or personification? The car jumped the guardrail
What is personification?
400
To conclude from what you know from reading the story, but have not been specifically told.
What is to infer?
400
Many Americans are unaware of how pesticides affect our food supplies. Pesticides can run off into groundwater and run off into nearby streams, where they are carried from their original dispersal site. This is how pesticides end up in drinking water, fish, and game. For example, if grain fields or rough lands are sprayed with pesticides, residues can show up in poultry, eggs, milk, and butter. The author's purpose is to . . .
What is to inform?
400
How you feel when you read a story (sad, happy, scared...)
What is mood?
400
Fact or opinion? The dogwood is the state flower of North Carolina.
What is fact?
500
Tell me, tell me, smiling child What the past is like to thee? 'An autumn evening soft and mild With a wind that signs mournfully.' Question: What is a metaphor for the "past"?
What is an autumn evening soft and mild?
500

The process of determining significance or discovering/revealing something through detailed examination within a text.

What is analyzing?
500
Throughout medieval Europe, the common people had been governed directly by their feudal lords and indirectly by their monarchs. This system of government is called feudalism. The lowest class of commoners were called serfs. The percentage of serfs was high; in parts of Europe, serfs comprised as much as 95% of the total population. The author's purpose is to . . .
What is to inform?
500
What type of literature or genre is this selection? Denise Drews was horse crazy. She read every horse book she could find. Models of ponies, palominos, and thoroughbreds cluttered her bedroom. Her walls were covered with horse pictures, and horse dreams filled her head. More than anything, Denise wanted a horse. Her father had just told her for the fiftieth time that the yard was much too small for a horse.
What is realistic fiction?
500
Randi saw the movie in Washington, DC
What is fact?
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