Figurative Language
Vivid description that includes details which appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
Some people worry about deer dying of STARVATION during the winter. These people often put hay out for the animals to eat. But deer do not eat hay. In winter they chew on twigs from trees.
The word STARVATION most likely means....a)wondering, b)tameness, c)lack of food
What is lack of food?
What is the resolution?
The three different types of author's purpose are.....
What is to Persuade, Entertain and Inform?
Where can you find definitions of bold print words in a book?
What is the glossary?
These are examples of which type of figurative language?
"Boom, Pop, Crackle"
What is onomatopoeia?
Most written works can be protected from stealing by a COPYRIGHT. This is not true of titles, however, You could write a book and call it A Long Walk to Water or Holes. The word COPYRIGHT most likely means...a)check against errors, b)type of legal ownership, c)kind of strong lock
What is type of legal ownership?
This is the part of the plot when the conflict is introduced.
What is the initiating event?
When you use your background knowledge and evidence from the text to make a guess/conclusion, you are making an........
What is an inference?
What is a sentence or sentences under a photograph that describes the photograph to the reader?
What is the caption?
This is an example of which type of figurative language?
"She's all bark and no bite."
The Declaration of Independence is dated July 4, 1776. But it wasn't UNANIMOUSLY approved on that day. It wasn't until later that all members of Congress voted for it. The word UNANIMOUSLY most likely means...a)happily, b)without hope, c)without a vote against it
What is without a vote against it?
In the climax, the protagonist comes face to face with the _______________.
What is the conflict?
What is a synonym for cold? What is an antonym for cold?
What is freezing, cool? What is hot, warm?
What is a drawing or a photograph of an aerial view of a place?
What is a map?
The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words.
What is alliteration?
Lord Byron was a famous poet. He died in Greece during a war of independence. He didn't die of wounds, though. His INCOMPETENT doctors bled him to death. The word INCOMPETENT most likely means....a)genuine, b)poorly skilled, c)independent
What is poorly skilled?
When the author takes a break in the narration to write about an event that happened in the past.
What is a flashback?
What is connotation? What is denotation?
What is connotation is the emotional meaning of the word and denotation is the dictionary meaning of the word?
Where can you find what page to find a certain topic or subject on so you can read about it?
What is an index?
What figurative language is in this sentence?
The sea carried up a thick, fiery breath.
What is personification?
Lions are not as NOBLE as people think. For instance, lions sometimes kill for no reason. They do not kill only to get food.
The word NOBLE most likely means....a)good, b)strong, c)fierce
What is good?
Name the parts of plot in the order they appear in a story.
What is exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
What are the different types of third person POV and what do they mean?
What is limited is the narrator is not a character in the story but knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character-usually the main character? What is omniscient is not a character in the story but knows all the thoughts and feelings of all the characters?
What is a nonfiction text that tells a story with facts?
What is narrative nonfiction?