Figurative Language
Vocab
Miscellaneous
Text Structure & Precise Language
100

Comparing 2 unlike things without using "like" or "as"

Metaphor

100

A type of writing that usually has figurative language, is written in separate lines, and sometimes rhymes or has meter.

Poetry

100

What genre use hyperbole?

Tall Tales

100

This type of text structure shows the order of events in which they happen

Chronological order

200
Giving humanlike characteristics to something that is not human

Personification

200

Use to find the pronunciation of a word

dictionary

200

You can remove these to make your writing more precise

Unnecessary words and phrases

200

What are these?

resulted in, because, due to, therefore, since, consequently

Words that signal cause-and-effect order

300

"Break a leg" is an example of what kind of figurative language?

Idiom

300

The message or lesson the author wants you to know about their writing

Theme

300

All other supporting details in a text or paragraph should tell you more about this.

The main/central idea

300

What are these?

After, during, finally, first, later, last, next, then, while

Words that signal chronological order

400

A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration

Hyperbole

400

Like a paragraph, but in poetry

Stanza

400

If you make an educated guess based on what you already know, you are making this

an inference

400

This text structure shows what happens in a story and why it happens

Cause-and-effect order

500

BOOM! FIZZ, and SPLAT! are examples of this type of figurative language

Onomatopoeia

500

The organizational pattern of an essay

Text Structure

500

Good writing finds the balance between these two types of writing:

Precise and descriptive

500

Following a recipe to cook or bake something is an example of what kind of text structure?

Chronological order

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