Writing
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Grammar
Writing
100
More narrow idea, evidence, examples, details, and elaboration that support the main idea in the passage.
What is Supporting details?
100
A comparison of two UNLIKE things by saying on thing is a dissimilar object or thing
What is Metaphor?
100
A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.
What is Allusion?
100
Contraction for "they are"
What is They're
100
Reader centered, the overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature.
What is Mood?
200
A sentence in a passage that states the main idea of that passage
What is Topic Sentence?
200
Figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. "Living Death"
What is Oxymoron?
200
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
What is Idiom?
200
Possessive for you
What is Your?
200
The central idea or truth a story revels
What is Theme?
300
Example: For example, for instance
What is Transition for making a point?
300
Giving human like qualities to nonhuman things.
What is Personification?
300
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words
What is Alliteration?
300
Contraction for "you are"
What is You're
300
Writer centered, the attitude a writer takes towards the subject or the reader
What is Tone?
400
Example: In contract, yet, however
What is Transitions for compare or contrast?
400
A comparison of two unlike things using the words LIKE or As
What is Simile?
400
A word, which imitates the natural sounds of things "Whoosh, Bing"
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
Possessive form of they
What is Their
400
A statement that tells what a passage is mostly about
What is Main Idea?
500
Example: After, later, last
What is Transitions for showing time?
500
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
What is Hyperbole?
500
A group of supporting details that elaborate on a single idea or category.
What is Idea Category?
500
In that place
What is There?
500
Two full sentences combined using FANBOYS and a comma.
What is Compound Sentences?
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