Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
The location and time period in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
What a text or passage is mostly or mainly about.
What is the main idea, or central idea?
Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank.
Mom the potatoes for dinner.
2. Mashes
The very first paragraph of an essay that states what the topic will be.
Answer: What is the introduction?
This gives human qualities to nonhuman things, like saying, "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
The central lesson, message, or moral that the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
Clues hidden directly inside a text that help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word.
What are context clues?
Choose the sentence that uses a comma correctly.
1.When I get older, I will be able to drive.
A specific statement in a piece of writing that clearly tells what the overall text will be about.
What is a claim statement
This is an extreme exaggeration used to make a point, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is a hyperbole?
To make an educated guess or reach a conclusion using both text clues and your own background knowledge.
What is making an inference?
To make an educated guess or reach a conclusion using both text clues and your own background knowledge.
What is making an inference?
The prefix CO- means "together," so when you COOPERATE you:
3. Work with someone else
The specific element in an introduction paragraph meant to grab the reader's attention right away.
What is a hook?
Words that imitate the real sounds they make, such as buzz, snap, or pop.
What is onomatopoeia?
The perspective from which a story is told, using pronouns like "l”, “We”, “Me”
What is first-person point of view?
What is it called when you try and determine if the author wants to inform, explain, persuade, or describe?
What is the Authors purpose?
Fill in the blank with the correct conjunction.
I wanted to buy a newspaper, I didn't have enough money.
3. However
Types of nouns, such as Nashville or January, that must always start with a capital letter.
What are proper nouns?
This is a common phrase where the meaning isn't literal, like "it's raining cats and dogs" or "break a leg."
What is an idiom?
A genre of fiction where the story is made up but set during a real time period in past history.
What is historical fiction?
An informational text structure that details an issue and provides ways to resolve it.
What is problem and solution?
Proper nouns refer to specific people, places or things.
1. True
The alphabetical section typically located at the back of a nonfiction book that defines difficult words.
What is a glossary?