Figurative Language
Word Parts
Plot Elements
Genre Skills
Text Features
100
What type of figurative language compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"? Example: "He was as fast as a cheetah."
Simile
100
This word part comes at the beginning of a word and adds meaning to the word.
Prefix
100
What do we call the time and location a story takes place?
Setting
100
What do we call a text that is made-up with characters, that usually has illustrations?
Fiction/Narrative
100
What text feature is this?
Photograph
200
In which type of figurative language does the author give human-like characteristics to an animal or object? Example: "The trees danced in the wind."
Personification
200
This word part comes at the end of the word and gives the word meaning.
Suffix
200
What is another word for the problem in a story?
Conflict
200
What do we call a text that is factual and meant to teach you something?
Nonfiction/Expository
200
What text feature is this?
Caption
300
What type of figurative language is an exaggerated statement, not meant to be taken literally? Example: "We've been waiting in line for this ride for a million years!"
Hyperbole
300
What is the prefix in the word "preheat"?
Pre-
300
What do you call the people who are in a fictional story?
Characters
300
What do we call a text that sometimes rhymes and is made up of lines and stanzas?
Poem
300
What text feature is this?
Illustration
400
In which type of figurative language does the author begin many words in a row with the same letter or letter sound? Example: "She sells seashells by the seashore."
Alliteration
400
What is the suffix in the word "hopeless"?
-less
400
What a story is mostly about.
Central Idea
400
What do we call a text that tells you about a real person's life?
Biography
400
What text feature is this?
Glossary
500
What type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing "is" the other? Example: "You are my sunshine"
Metaphor
500
What is the root word in the word "preheat"?
Heat
500
What do you call the lesson, message, or moral of a story?
Theme
500
What do we call a text that is made-up, but contains events and people that could exist in real life?
Realistic Fiction
500
Why type of text feature is this?
Diagram