Figurative Language
Words that are sounds.
What is onomotopoeia?
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
What the story is mainly about.
What is main idea?
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
A story about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
The way an author feels about his subject.
What is tone?
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
A strategy used to read non-fiction.
What is look for graphs, charts, illustrations?
The ending of a story.
What is the resolution?
The feeling the author creates in a story.
What is mood?
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
Non-fiction articles often have these headings that separate ideas?
What are subheadings?
A poem that tells a story, usually about an impressive hero that has a great journey to take.
What is an epic?
Point of view that uses "I".
What is first person?
Three reasons an author writes.
What is entertain, persuade and inform?
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
The main purpose of non-fiction is to...
What is inform?
A narrative poem which is sometimes called a tall tale because it uses exaggeration.
What is a ballad?
Three different ways the author reveals his characters.
What is what the characters says, what the character does, and what others say about the character?
What you should do before reading a selection.
What is read the questions?