Figurative Language
What is a simile? What is a metaphor?
A simile is comparing two unlike things using like or as.
A metaphor is comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
The main point or gist of the passage.
What is the central/main idea?
The first step in a plot map where it introduces the characters, setting, and possible conflict (problem)
What is the beginning of the plot?
The base word.
What is the root word?
A text structure that shows why events happen and what is the result of them.
What is cause and effect?
What is personification?
Maps, graphs, charts, photographs, or any other visual graphics in a text.
What are text features?
This happens after the beginning part of the plot map with details and events that lead to the climax
What is the rising action?
The beginning part of the word such as -un, -mis, -dis, that changes the meaning of the root word.
What is the prefix?
A text structure showing similarities and differences.
What is compare/contrast?
Sound devices/words
What is onomatopoeia?
Examining a text carefully to explain information.
What is analyze?
The turning point of the story. This is where the character either solves, or doesn't solve the problem but a big moment happens.
What is the climax?
The end of the word part, such as -ed, -ness, -ing, that change the tense and use of the root word
A text structure that has an issue with a potential answer.
What is problem and solution text structure?
Phrases with hidden meanings
Example: "This is a piece of cake."
What is an idiom?
A genre that has facts, details, real story.
What is non-fiction?
Details that follow the climax that describe what the characters do/does after the climax, how they feel after if they solved or didn't solve the conflict.
What is the falling action?
A text structure that explains a topic in depth.
What is description?
A life lesson, or lesson to be learned. Message of the story.
What is a theme?
Traditional sayings
Example: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch!"
What are adages/proverbs?
How information is organized in a text.
What is informational/non-fiction text structure?
End of the story. How are the characters doing since they either solved or didn't solve the conflict? Ties up all the "loose ends" of the story.
What is the resolution?
A text structure that is in time order or sequence of events.
What is chronological order?
If someone is writing things in a sequence, it is called
What is chronological order?