Figures of Speech
"Her smile is as bright as the sun."
What is a simile?
The most pivotal point in a story.
What is the climax?
This is where you can find words and their definitions in a nonfiction text.
What is the glossary?
An example is, "Two friends go to the mall to buy presents for their parents."
What is a main idea?
I going to my friend's house tonight!
I'm**
"Your bedroom is a dump!"
What is a metaphor?
When the problem in a story is solved.
What is the resolution?
This is a little "blurb" beneath a photo in a text.
What is a caption?
To weigh the differences between two aspects of a story/text.
What is contrast?
I brung you a birthday present.
Brought**
"The breeze whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
The buildup to the climax.
What is the rising action?
This is the part of a nonfiction text where you can find the page numbers for certain words/things.
To weigh the similarities of two aspects of a story/text.
What is compare?
I dont like to wake up early on the weekends.
Don't**
"Spill the tea!"
What is an idiom?
The fall from the climax.
This is a feature at the beginning of a text that lays out the chapters and their page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
An example is, "Don't judge a book by its cover."
What is theme?
Did you go to jessica's party this weekend?
Jessica**
"I'm so tired, I could sleep for days."
What is a hyperbole?
The beginning development of a story, introducing the reader to the characters, setting, and plot.
What is the exposition?
This is an image of a geographical location in a text.
What is a map?
This is the narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
What is point of view?
My mom my brother and I went to Six Flags last week.
My mom, my brother, and I **