Literary Elements
Figurative Langauge
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Story/Article Structure and Organization
Vocabulary
100
The people, animals or objects in a story
What are characters?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
100
Events that are listed according to time
What is chronological order?
100
First or most important
What is primary?
200
The time and place in which a story occurs
What is setting?
200
A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
200
1st person and 3rd person are two examples of this
What is point of view?
200
When you are required to find similarities and differences between topics, ideas, people, places or things.
What is compare and contrast?
200
Using background knowledge and present information to make an educated guess
What is inference?
300
The events of a story
What is plot?
300
Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human
What is personification?
300
When an informational source can be trusted to give good information
What is reliable?
300
Finding a relationship between actions or events
What is cause and effect?
300
Diagrams, maps, charts, graphs, captions and pictures are all examples of this
What are text features?
400
The central idea or underlying message of a story
What is theme?
400
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
to decide the value or worth of after study
What is evaluation/evaluate?
400
When you are told the steps to follow to make or do something
What is sequence?
400
Using the words, tone and information around an unknown word to help figure out the meaning
What are context clues?
500
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
500
An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words
What is an idiom?
500
These are added to the beginning or end of words to change form, but not meaning
What are affixes (suffixes/prefixes)?
500
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
What is a plot diagram?
500
To examine very closely or think about very deeply
What is analyzing/analysis?
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