Figurative Language
The author's purpose of
A National Geographic article about the eating and breeding habits of the endangered bald eagle.
What is to inform?
What is tone?
What is the way an author feels about the topic?
He is older than the hills.
What is hyperbole?
What is the author's purpose of the following passage?
Erosion is the process of materials moving from their source to another location through weathering. There are several types of erosion, but the most common types are erosion by wind, water, and ice.
What is to inform
What is mood?
What is the way the reader feels about the text?
Name one of the non-fiction text structures.
Compare and contrast, order and sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, and description
What is the author's purpose?
To make a delicious New England pit, proceed as follows: take some water and flour; then construct a bullet-proof dough. Make this into a disk-shaped object. Dry it for a couple of days in a mild temperature. Pour on stewed dried apples and slabs of citron; leave it in a safe place until it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your mother-in-law.
What is to explain
What would be the mood of the following passage?
Evan bounded from his bed. He drew his blinds and the sun poured through. He opened the window and breathed in the fresh morning air. It was crisp and smelled like life and spring. Today would be a good day. Evan bathed and got dressed in clean clothes. He packed his bag in an orderly way, making sure he had all his supplies. He took a piece of toast and some fresh fruit with him for the road. It's hard to have a good day when you're hungry, and Evan knew this. He would not be hungry today.
What is Optimistic, enthusiastic, prepared, focused, ready?
What is included in the exposition of a story?
Setting, characters, inciting incident
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
What is the author's purpose?
Students should be assigned a computer to use throughout the school year. Among many reasons, studies show that students who attend schools that have a 1:1 computer policy do better academically.
What is to persuade
What is the tone of the passage?
"There came again the large voice, and it was answered by a second voice. And the speech was slow, and it rose up out of the hollow, sounding brutish and hoarse. And I wish that I could make you hear it and be shaken with that utter horror that I felt."
What is Frightened, afraid, scared?
In Best of Friends, Worlds Apart, the two main characters names were _______ and _______.
Joel Ruiz and Achmed Valdes
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse right now.
What is hyperbole?
What would be the author's purpose of a poem about the beauty of nature?
What is to describe?
The tone of the following passage...
"Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake."
What is Sweet, tender?
What are the 5 types of author's purpose?
Persuade, Inform, Explain, Entertain, Describe.