Figurative What?
He has bigger fish to fry
What is an idiom?
This is the big picture - What the author wants you to know.
What is Central Idea?
People and animals, sometimes other things that talk
What are characters?
Seeing how two things are similar or different?
What is Compare and Contrast?
The repetition of the same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the ends of lines.
What is Rhyme?
The classroom, while functional, was like the morning after a girls sleepover
What is a Simile?
The lesson the author wants you to know
What is theme?
Events in the story, i.e., beginning, middle, and end
What is Plot?
Seeing how two or more characters influence others, the story, or the setting?
What is Character Interaction?
A group of lines in a poem. a white space separates these
What are Stanzas?
I must have walked a hundred miles this morning
What is Hyberbole?
This is the author's attitude towards a topic
What is Tone?
Background information, Time, Weather, Place
What is Setting?
Looking at how the text is organized, i.e., Compare/Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution
What is Text Structure?
A technique in which the same word or line is repeated for emphasis. Helps to reinforce meaning.
What is repetition?
The clouds marched across the Martian sky
What is personification?
Author's always have a reason for writing. We call it...
What is Author's Purpose?
The problem the characters face?
What is conflict?
Looking at Rhetorical questions, Irony, Figurative Language is called this.
What are rhetorical devices?
A poem that uses 14 lines. Starts with S
What is a Sonnet?
The gold medal winner was a Cinderella story in the making
What is allusion?
An educated guess based on the context clues
What is an Inference?
The way, the characters solve the problem
What is solution?
Read it once, read it twice, count the lines, and it will make sense
What is analyzing poetry?
A poem that uses 19 lines. Starts with V
what is a Villanelle?