A word that sounds like or means the same thing as it's name.
What is onomatopoeia?
Connecting a text to yourself.
What is text-to-self connection?
Jane sat in awe as the stars danced across the night sky.
This is an example of...
What is personification?
Using your schema and evidence from the text.
What is making inferences?
Compares two things using like or as.
What is simile?
Somebody Wanted But So Then
What is summarizing?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
An insight that the author wants the reader to "take away" from the text.
John was an ox as he rolled the boulder up the steep hill.
What is metaphor?
The main reason why the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?