Figurative Language Strategies
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A type of writing organization that relates a series of events
What is a narrative?
These are used to create visual representations of ideas, facts, theories and concepts
What are graphic organizers?
What is evaluating a website or finding the validity of a website?
Using words around an unknown word in a sentence to understand the meaning.
What is using context clues?
Giving human qualities to an object, animal or an idea to bring life and meaning to a description and to help readers form mental pictures
What is personification?
This defines a person, place, thing or idea by explaining the characteristics that distinguish it from others in its class.
What is definition and example?
This graphic organizer is best used for organizing main ideas and details from textbooks.
What is a cluster diagram or cornell notes?
Google, Bing, or Youtube search
What are search engines?
Putting notes in the margin of a text of reading.
What are annotations?
A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration to make an impression
What is hyperbole?
What is cause and effect?
A graphic organizer that helps to organize information according to similarities and differences
What is a Venn Diagram?
This is an innerconnected hyperbased network that allows you to browse a variety of internet resources by home pages.
What is the world wide web or WWW?
This is the general subject of a text passage that can be said in a word or short phrase.
What is the topic?
The moon made its nightly climb over the fading horizon is an example.
What is personification?
This shows with words a method of doing something in sequence.
What is process analysis?
This is best used for pre reading strategies: using background knowledge, setting a purpose for reading and recording what has been learned.
What is a KWL chart?
This is an automatic address jump to another web site containing similar or more information on your topic
What is a hyperlink, hotlink, or link?
This figurative language uses a phrase or two or more words to mean something quite different from what the words would mean normally. Ex. "Don't cry over spilled milk" or "It was raining cats and dogs"
What is an idiom?
When Maya Angelou says in "Still I Rise" in stanza 8: "I am a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide."
What is a metaphor?
This divides a subject into various categories and identifies a member or group based on similar characteristics.
What is classification?
This organizer is best used for recording a narrative's details.
What is the 5 W's Concept web or chart?
This is when a writer uses when he or she uses direct quotes, paraphrases or uses the same sequence of info of another author.
What is citing web sources?
Involves higher order thinking (h.o.t) skills such as analyzing, comparing and judging and is evaluative and reflective in nature.
What is critical thinking?