Figurative Language
A comparison of 2 unlike things using words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The word "copilot" means a second pilot in an aircraft. What does the prefix "co" mean?
What is with or together?
Fiction that could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
Time and place of a story
What is the setting?
The reason an author writes dramas, some poetry and plays.
What is to Entertain?
The word autograph has the greek root "graph". Graph means...
What is write or draw?
Fiction which is based on facts
What is historical fiction?
The plot element which gives background information about the setting and characters
What is exposition?
Sensory words help readers...
What is create visual images?
Most songs have an interlude. This is a piece of music that connects a verse to the chorus. If "lude" means "tune", then "inter" means...
What is between?
Exaggerated tales about a person who may have lived
What is a tall tale?
The events leading up to the climax or main conflict.
What is rising action?
The authors purpose in writing a newspaper article or science textbook.
What is to inform?
While I nodded, nearly napping
What is alliteration?
The first Transcontinental Railroad was built in 1869. The railroad spanned the entire U.S. from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Trans- means...
What is across or beyond?
Type of story that usually starts with "Once Upon a Time..."
What is a fairy tale?
The story ends but the conflict is not always resolved.
What is denoument or cliff hanger?
Foreshadowing is when the author...
What is give you clues about what to expect in the rest of the story?
Her eyes were diamonds.
What is a metaphor?
a limerick, haiku, ode
What is a type of poem?
What is climax?
The universal message of a story.
What is theme?