Figurative Language
Text Features
Website Features
Reference Resources
Miscellaneous
100
This figure of speech involves a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as.'
What is a simile?
100
These help create a mood in a story, helps the reader better understand the characters and the setting.
What are illustrations?
100
This is where you type in keywords when searching for information on a computer.
What is the search bar?
100
These are the words found usually at the top of the page of a dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia.
What are guide words?
100
This is the outline or plan of action in a story.
What is the plot?
200
This figure of speech is a comparison of two relatively unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as.'
What is a metaphor?
200
This feature in an informational text defines important words used in the text.
What is a glossary?
200
This is a graphic image, a small picture or object that represents a file, program, web page or command.
What is an icon?
200
This an excellent source of quick facts.
What is an almanac?
200
This is the word used when someone uses someone else's words, artwork, or other creation without permission.
What is plagiarism?
300
"She said so a million times at least" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
300
This feature in an informational text lists important people, events, or subjects along with the page numbers where they can be found.
What is the index?
300
These are the words used to search for a topic within a search engine.
What are keywords?
300
If Mrs. Watson wanted to find the way to the Grand Canyon she would use this reference resource.
What is an atlas?
300
When a narrator uses the words I, me, my, or our.
What is first person?
400
This type of figurative language gives qualities of a person to an animal, object, or an idea.
What is personification?
400
This text feature explains the photographs, illustrations, and graphs that may be found in a text.
What are captions?
400
This is a type of menu found on the edge or across the top of a web page.
What is a sidebar?
400
This reference resource includes several volumes arranged in alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
400
These are three important pieces of personal information that should not be shared with strangers on the internet.
What is: 1. Your name 2. Your address 3. Your phone number?
500
These are expressions that cannot be directly translated into another language. An example would be "He's the apple of my eye."
What are idioms?
500
This text feature shows the chapters in a book along with the page numbers.
What is the table of contents?
500
This is a connection between one page of a computer to another page of a computer.
What is a hyperlink?
500
In this reference resource you could find a synonym for the word 'great.'
What is a thesaurus?
500
You would look in this volume of an encyclopedia to find information about Thomas Jefferson.
What is the 'J' volume of the encyclopedia?
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