FIGURATIVE LANG
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
Simile
What the article is mostly about
Central or main idea
Universal truth
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Comparison between 2 things saying one thing is the other
Metaphor
The way the author feels about the topic
Tone
The way the reader feels
Mood
When a poem does not rhyme
Free verse
To move the story forward
Propel
The American flag is an example of this
Symbolism
what you do with the title of an excerpt or article
Put in quotation marks
Where and when story takes place
Setting
The space between stanzas
Stanza break
When the opposite of what’s expected happens
Irony
A reference to a famous person place or thing
Allusion
The parts of a paragraph that help to develop the central idea
Supporting details
What you do with the title of a novel
Underline or italicize
When a line in a poem goes into the next line
Enjambment
Giving human qualities to non human things
Personification
The Sneetches and The Lorax are examples of this
Allegory
Chronological and Compare/contrast are examples of this
Text Structure
Sequence of events in a story
Plot
A poem in the form of a letter
Epistolary
“I am a rock. I am an island”
metaphor