Figurative Language
Wyatt runs around the field like a cheetah!
What is a simile?
Restate the question:
What is the name of the main character?
The name of the main character is...
What does the word structure mean when talking about a text?
The way authors organize information in text.
What are the different ways a text can be organized (name 2)?
Compare and contrast
cause and effect
problem and solution
discriptive
chronological/sequencing
The branches bowed to the ground.
Jimmy and Lilly were the best of friends. What happened that they are no longer friends?
Jimmy and Lilly are no longer friends because...
What does the word opinion mean?
What someone feels or thinks.
Fiction, nonfiction, fairytale, folk tale...
The main character of a story, novel, or a play (good or bad)
What is a protagonist?
I am so tired that I could sleep for a year!
What is hyperbole?
What year were you born?
I was born in...
What does persuade mean?
To make someone believe or think something.
This is the amount of suggested rest you will need to have your brain and body ready to conquer the ILEARN each day!
What is 8-10 hours?
The logical sequence of events that develops a story
Dewdrops dwell delicately on the daffodils.
Compare and contrast how Billy's old school is like his new school.
Billy's new school is like/not like his old school because...
Define the word inferring.
When you infer something, you read between the lines. To infer is to make a well informed guess — if you see your mom’s bag on the table, you might infer that she’s home.
This is the one part of an argument that is not included in an informational essay...
What is the counterargument?
What are 3 types of text features?
Pictures, side bars, caption, title, glossary, table of context and index.
He was the wizard and we, the people of Oz, under his spell the entire time.
What is an allusion?
What is the author's point of view?
The author's point of view is...
When doing the writing portion of ILEARN, what does the word source mean?
Source refers to the passage(s) you should be writing about.
When writing persuasively, what are the 3 types of rhetoric one might use?
What is pathos, ethos, and logos?
What are the types of author's purpose?
Inform
entertain
persuade