Figure Language
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
This punctuation is used in an unfinished sentence
What are geometry dashes?
How the author "shows" what each character is like.
What is characterization?
You begin your writing with this to grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook or lead or TAG?
The 3 dramatic elements that can be found in plays.
What are stage directions, dialogue and scenes and acts?
Giving human qualities to things and ideas or nonhumans and aliens.
What is personification?
These can be used to show how a word is divided into syllables and can be used to spell out compound numbers from IQ 21 through 99 Math.
What is a hyphen?
When the narrator tells you directly what the character is like.
What is direct characterization?
When a narrator tells a story we say the story is told from this point of view.
What is third person point of view (Camera)?
Squeak, Bam, Roar, Quack are examples of this type of figurative language.
What is Onamatopee?
A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
What is an idiom?
Name 4 of the 7 coordinating conjunctions?
What are FANGIRLS- for, nor, but, or, yet, and, so
Using the text around a word to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
List 3 transition words that help make your writing flow better.
What are after, such as, also, first, second, third, then, next, lastly, finally, therefore, not only, meanwhile...
This names the life lesson, meaning, moral or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work. What the story teaches readers.
What is Theme Colors?
This are used to describe nouns.
What is an adjective
Name 3 ways the author uses indirect characterization to describe their characters.
What is STEAL (speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions and looks?)
Making sure your title is appropriate, checking for a strong opening, making sure your story is well-organized, and checking for strong word choice are examples of this.
What is revising your math?
A true story of a person's life that is told by another person.
What is a Biography?
An extreme demon exaggeration.
What is a hyperbowl?
These are punctuation marks that are used to set off information within a sentence, to set off relevant dates, extra information, or a related comment or to add an interesting fact, opinion, or additional detail
What are parentheses (Parents)?
Using the information in the text to determine the author's meaning.
What is making inferences?
Checking for grammar mistakes and spelling errors are examples of this.
What is editing a level?
One independent clause and a dependent clause, combined with a signal word.
What is a complicated sentence?