non fiction texts
Figures of Speech (definitions)
Figures of Speech (examples)
Parts of a Story
grab bag
100
A word that sounds like what it is.
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
BAM!
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
The last part of an essay. It ties all the ideas together and restates the introduction.
What is the conclusion?
200
TORNADOES Blah blah blah blah bladdity blah. HURRICANES Yap yap, yappity yap.
What is a heading?
200
It compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The mountain crouched above the travelers, ready to grab them up and eat them.
What is a personification?
200
The people in the story.
What are characters?
200
Any kind of change.
What is a transition?
300
Volcanoes 5 Tornadoes 20 Sinkholes 50 Big Bad Jesse 100
What is a Table of Contents?
300
When you talk about something that is NOT human like it IS human.
What is personification?
300
Man, we got skunked in that soccer game yesterday! Those little third graders won by 10 points.
What is an idiom?
300
The action in a story.
What is the plot?
300
Last. First of all. For example. Meanwhile. Secondly. Finally.
What are transition words?
400
aardvark- an animal with a long nose that eats ants. bear- a big hairy animal that lives in the woods. cat- a small feline that lives with people. deer- a big hairy animal that eats people.
What is a glossary?
400
A saying that means something different than the way it sounds.
What is an idiom?
400
The lake was as smooth as a mirror.
What is a simile?
400
When one or more characters want something but can't have it.
What is a conflict?
400
Words that help you move from one paragraph to another.
What are transition words?
500
iguanas 5, 12, 100 jackrabbits 10, 44, 90 kangaroos 15, 77, 104
What is an index?
500
A sentence that compares two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
500
Her tears were rain in the desert.
What is a metaphor?
500
How the problem gets solved.
What is a resolution?
500
5W + 1H.
What are who, what, when, where, why and how?
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