Literature
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Writing where the author is giving information or facts.
What is informative writing?
Words that replace nouns in a sentence so it is not repetitive.
What are pronouns?
Two words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
Stories that are made up and not factual.
What is fiction?
Giving nonhuman things, human like characteristics.
What is personification?
Writing where the author is trying to get readers to agree with him/her.
What is persuasive writing?
Part of speech that is used to join things in a sentence or paragraph.
What is a conjunction?
Two words that have opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
A character that is the hero of the story.
What is a protagonist?
A figure of speech that is understood but doesn't mean what is said literally. Ex: It's raining cats and dogs!
What is an idiom?
The part of a writing where the author is closing and restating their points.
What is a conclusion?
Acronym used to remember the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
Two lines in a poem that rhyme?
What is a couplet?
To make an educated guess based on clues or evidence from text.
What is inference?
These words are sound words.
What is onomatopoeia?
The part of writing where you present your ideas and claim.
What is the introduction (or thesis)?
A sentence that contains two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
Language that does not mean exactly what it says.
What is figurative language?
To tell what a story is about using your own words.
What is summarize?
The repetition of beginning sounds of words.
What is alliteration?
Stating examples or facts explicitly mentioned in the text.
What is citing evidence?
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things.
What are homophones?
The message or moral of a story?
What is theme?