Figurative Language
Main Idea and Theme
Poetry/Prose/Play
Plot Mountain
Text Structures
100

What is the difference between a metaphor and simile?

A metaphor does not use like or as or a simile uses like or as.

100

What is the main idea?

The overall idea of the story.

100

What is the difference between prose and poetry.

Poetry is figurative and prose is litteral

100

What is Plot?

The plot is what happens in the story.

100

What is this type of text structure; This text explains events and the results of these events.

Cause and effect

200

Is an idiom literal?

No.

200

What is theme?

The theme is the moral of the story/poem.

200

What is a stanza?

A poetical paragraph.

200

What is the the usual Climax?

The most intense part of the story.

200

Mr. Farmer didnt have enough money to buy a car but then he worked extra hours and had enough money." What text structure is this?

Problem and solution

300

What is personification?

Personification is giving human qualities to an inanimate object.

300

What is the main idea of this text:

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics  are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, and since 1994, have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period.

The Olympics are a series of sports games.

300

What form of writing is a play written in?

Dialouge.

300

What does the Plot Mountain graph?

The order and main parts of the story graphed.

300

The venn diagram is used for what text structure?

Compare and contrast

400

The explosion sounded like bam boom boom!!!

What is this figurative language?

Onomatopoeia

400

Find the Theme of this sentence; The Ant asked,"Grasshopper, why didnt you prepare for the winter to survive?"

Be prepared

400

What is a rhyme scheme?

The Rhyme in a poems order.

400

Why is a Plot Mountain useful?

To find the main parts and put them in order in the story.

400

What clue words match with the text structure; For example, such as and adjectives.

Descriptive

500

DAILY DOUBLE

What is Allusion?

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it.

500

What is the difference between the theme and the main idea?

The main idea is what the story is generally about and the theme is the message of the story.

500

What is the format of poetry?

There is no format.

500

List the Plot Mountain order.

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution.

500

1------2-----3 What text structure would this show?

Chronological order.

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