Figurative Language
A word that sounds like the noise it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
Pictures of information using bars or pie charts.
What are graphs?
A question not meant to be answered.
What is rhetorical question?
An educated guess based on clues in the text.
What is inference?
A text that provides details about something.
What is description?
What is alliteration?
A list at the start of a book showing chapter titles and page numbers.
What is Table of Contents?
The opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
A word that shares the same meaning with another word.
What is synonym?
Presenting a problem and how it's fixed.
What is problem and solution?
A quick reference to a famous story, event or person.
What is allusion?
Little notes at the bottom of the page.
What are footnotes?
Opposite ideas placed together.
What is antithesis?
The feelings or ideas a word gives you.
Events presented in time order.
Words that make you picture, hear, smell, taste, or feel something.
A mini dictionary at the back of a book.
What is a glossary?
Using a part to represent the whole.
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
Telling what happened and why.
What is cause and effect?
An understatement - making something seem less than it is.
What are annotations?
Flipping the order of the same words in a sentence.
What is chiasmus?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another.
Showing how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?