Figurative Language
Elements of Short Story
Vocabulary
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Their/They're/There
100
The tree waved in the wind as the boy walked by.
What is personification
100
The main events of a story.
What is plot?
100
What a passage or paragraph is about.
What is main idea?
100

Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening in the text.

What is an inference?
100

Look over their/they're/there!

There
200
I move as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile?
200
The most exciting or intense part of a story. 
What is climax?
200

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What are context clues?
200

A comparison between two things: _______is to_______as_________is to___________

What is an analogy?
200

I went to their/they're/there house.

Their
300
He is skinnier than a toothpick.
What is hyperbole?
300
The lesson in a story.
What is theme?
300
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
300
Visually descriptive language.
What is imagery?
300

Their/They're/There mom is here to pick them up.

Their
400
She's happy as a clam.
What is a simile?
400
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
A story about a person written by themselves.
What is autobiography?
400
Literature that is true.
What is nonfiction?
400

Their/They're/There my best friends!

They're
500
You are my sunshine.
What is metaphor?
500
When the narrator is not in the story and uses words such as: he, she, they. 
What is third person point of view?
500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?
500

A sign or warning of whats going to happen next in a story.

What is foreshadowing?
500

I set my jacket right their/they're/there on the table.

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