Figurative Language
The pen raced across the page.
What is personification?
A device used to strengthen an argument.
What is a rhetorical device.
Determining what might happen in a text by using clues such as the title or pictures.
What is making predictions?
I, we, me, my, he, she, they.
What is a pronoun?
A pattern of rhyming words in lines (AA, BB, AB, AB).
What is rhyme scheme?
This game is a piece of cake.
What is a metaphor?
Only successful people get eight hours of sleep at night, so buy our mattress?
What is overgeneralization?
Writing a concise version of a text to monitor comprehension.
What is summarization?
She had no time for herself, which made her resent all of the meaningless tasks she was assigned by her boss.
What is a comma which?
The lesson expressed in a poem or other text.
What is theme?
Her eyes twinkle like the brightest star in the night's sky.
What is simile?
The use of logic and reasoning, such as facts and statistics.
What is logos?
Creating images or movies in your mind to make sense of what is happening in the text.
What is visualizing?
Past, Present, Future
What are verb tenses?
A poem's organization.
What is structure?
She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering." — Yoda, in Star Wars Episode I.
What is repetition?
Deepening understanding though self-guided inquiry.
What is questioning?
She looked everywhere: on top of the bookcase, inside the fridge, yet her keys were nowhere to be found!
What is a prepositional phrase?
The use of figurative and vivid language to help the reader imagine what is happening.
What is imagery?
Once in a blue moon.
What is an idiom?
Climate change is a direct result of human carelessness.
What is single cause?
Interacting with the text by making notes in the margins as you read.
What is annotation?
Words such as although, if, as, since, after.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
A strategy for analyzing poetry.
What is SWIFT analysis?