Language
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Literary
Perspectives
Odds & Ends
100
A comparison between two things using the word "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The way the information is organized in a nonfiction text
What is text structure?
100
The sequence of events in a story
What is the plot?
100
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
100
A word that means the opposite of another word
What is an antonym?
200
A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
The text structure of the following paragraph: "Cats often have lots of energy and will play for a long time. As a result, they take many naps."
What is cause and effect?
200
The central message or insight into life in a piece of literature
What is theme?
200
The point of view of the following excerpt: "Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
What is third person?
200
Personal writing that covers an event in the writer's life
What is personal narrative?
300
A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally
What is an idiom?
300
The text structure of the following passage: Crocodiles and alligators look very much alike, but there are ways to tell them apart. The crocodile has a pointy snout, while the alligator’s snout is rounder. The crocodile weighs less than the alligator and can move faster. Both animals have an extra-long lower tooth. When the crocodile’s mouth is closed, you can see this long tooth. However, when the alligator’s mouth is closed, the tooth is hidden inside the mouth.
What is compare and contrast?
300
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
300
A text written by someone who observed or experienced the event described
What is a firsthand account?
300
A conclusion one can draw from the presented details
What is an inference?
400
Exactly true, rather than figurative
What is literal?
400
The text structure of the following passage: At one time, Americans couldn’t get from coast to coast by train. The train tracks did not go all the way across the United States. This was a problem because it took months to travel from one side of the country to the other. Suddenly, in the early 1860s, the railroad companies decided to begin building a transcontinental railroad. This railroad would allow Americans to cross the continent in less than a week. What a better way to travel!
What is problem and solution?
400
Written to be performed on stage
What is a drama?
400
The point of view of the following excerpt: "It was early. Way too early for me to be bounding out of bed, racing down the hallway, and leaping onto my sleeping parents. But I did it anyway! I hurtled myself into my parents' quiet bedroom, shouting, “It’s my birthday! It’s my birthday!”
What is first person?
400
A word that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word
What is a synonym?
500
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling
What is figurative language?
500
The text structure of the following passage: A baby may first toss and turn when she is put in a crib for a nap. Second, she may cry. Not long after that she will likely close her eyes and drift off to sleep.
What is chronological order?
500
A group of lines (verses) in a poem
What is a stanza?
500
A text written by someone who researched an event, but did not experience or observe it
What is a secondhand account?
500
The point you are making, which you will support with reasons and evidence.
What is a claim?
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