Examples of figurative Language
Simile?
The old woman is as fit as a fiddle.
Exposition?
a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Description?
a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.
Phrase
a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
A.C.E Method
The ACE method has students state their assertion (claim). Next, they support that assertion with citations (evidence) from the text. Last, they explain (provide reasoning) for why/how their evidence supports the claim.
Hyperbole?
'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
Rising Action?
Rising action in literature refers to all the events that happen in a story on the way to the climax.
Cause and Effect?
one or more things happen as a result of something else.
Clause
a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
Diferrent POVs
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
Personification?
He was the personification of evil.
Climax?
the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
Compare and Contrast?
comparing is showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.
Simple Sentence
Conflicts
More precisely, conflict means thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire.
onomatopoeia
Buzz-The bee buzzed in my ear
Falling Action?
the stage in which the conflict is in the process of becoming resolved and tension decreases.
Chronology/sequence
gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.
Compound sentence
Modifier
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that affect and often enhance the meaning of a sentence.
Metaphor?
Eyes are the windows to the soul.
Conclusion?
the end or finish of an event or process.
Problem and Solution
a format of writing that involves setting up the structure of written text to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.
Complex sentence
Main Idea
the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about