Figurative Language
Compares two different things, using the words “like” or “as” to draw
What is a Simile
Creates a vivid, multi-sensory picture in the reader’s mind to describe the text
What is a descriptive text?
Reason for writing
What is Author's Purpose
An incomplete sentence, usually missing the subject or predicate
What is a fragment sentence
What the story is mostly about
What is main/central idea?
Compares two different things, similar to a simile, but does not use "like or as".
What is a metaphor?
Tells why something happened and what happened
What is cause and effect
What is author's POINT of VIEW
This type of sentence usually has a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)
What is a compound sentence?
The time and location the story takes place
What is setting?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.
What is personification?
Examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, and ideas.
What is compare and Contrast?
Author's reasons for writing are as easy as...
What is PIE - Persuade, Inform, Entertain
Includes one (1) independent clause and one(1) dependent clause
What is a complex sentence?
The order of events that takes place in a story
What is the PLOT?
A great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment
What is an hyperbole?
Describes items or events in order, or explains the steps to follow.
The main idea or theme the author wants to deliver
What is Author's message?
"You are a very good student" is what type of sentence?
What is a complete sentence
The lesson or message the author wants you to learn
What is theme?
My mother is as busy as a bee.
What is a simile
Conflict and resolution
What is problem and solution
Who wrote the text
Who is the author?
These are the different types of sentences
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
The narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by pronouns he, she, or they.
What is 3rd person POV?