Literary Devices
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
Name a strategy to help you determine the main idea of the article.
What is look at the title of the article?
Define main idea.
What is what the passage is mostly about?
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Give an example of a simile.
Can be anything as long as it compares two things using like or as.
For example...What is she is as silly as a clown?
A comparison of two things that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
Name a strategy to help you understand words you may not know in a passage.
What is look back to the text and re-read the sentence or paragraph?
Define details.
What are facts or examples that tell more about the main idea?
Giving the traits of a person to inanimate objects
What is personification?
Give an example of a metaphor.
Can be anything as long as it is a comparison of two things not using like or as.
For example... What is she has a heart of gold?
Words that mean a sound
What is onomatopoeia?
Name a strategy to help you determine the answer when given a multiple choice question.
What is cross-out the answers you know are incorrect to reduce the amount of choices?
Define summary.
What is giving the listener a quick idea of what the passage or paragraph is saying?
Words beginning with the same letter or sound
What is alliteration?
Give a synonym for the word: difficult
Try to think of words that you may use less frequently!
Synonym: What is tough?
The repetition of a vowel sound
What is assonance?
Define context clues.
What are hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage to help the reader understand the meaning of new words?
Difference between how things seem to be and the reality
What is irony?
Give an antonym for the word: difficult
Antonym: What is simple?
Define synonym and antonym.
What is words that have similar meanings?
What is words that have opposite meanings?
BONUS:
Name two words that are synonyms.
Name two words that are antonyms.
Can be anything as long as they are two words that have similar meanings.
Ex: Lazy, Tired
Can be anything as long as they are two words that have opposite meanings.
Ex: Exciting, Boring