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A comparison of two different things, using like or as.
What is a Simile?
When an author sounds a certain way (an emotion) about the topic they are writing about.
What is tone?
When the author tells the reader about a time in the past, a memory.
What is a flashback?
When an author chooses specific words to convey things.
What is diction?
Esperanza is the star of this book.
What is The House on Mango Street?
A word that represents a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
When an author makes the reader feel a certain way (an emotion) about the things they are reading about.
What is mood?
When the author tells about an experience that will happen in the future of the story being told.
What is a flash forward?
An author uses the same words, over and over again to reinforce their point.
What is repetition?
A person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
An author makes a reference to something they think most people know about.
What is an Allusion?
When an author hints to something that will happen but does not fully reveal it.
What is foreshadowing?
One person’s view can be different than someone else’s.
What is perspective?
The author of Night.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
Giving something non-human, human characteristics.
What is personification?
An author uses the five senses to create an image in the reader’s mind so that the reader feels like they experienced it too.
What is imagery?
An object, figure, event or situation that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
When a person is writing, using pronouns like: I, we, my, me, us and our.
What is first person point of view?
The teacher’s name in Freedom Writers.
Who is Erin Gruwell?
A comparison of two unlike things; usually saying one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
When the reader knows something happening in the text before the character(s) does.
What is dramatic irony?
An object, figure, people, events or actions continue to repeat throughout a text, leading to a theme of the text.
What is a motif?
When a person is writing using pronouns like: they, them, she, he, her and his.
What is third person point of view?
The author’s message (the lesson learned by the end of a text).
What is theme?