FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
LITERARY TERMS
GRAMMAR
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE
TEXT FEATURES
100
A comparison using like or as such as "being betrayed is like being stabbed in the back"
What is simile?
100
the perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
100
this type of sentence contains a subject and a verb
What is a simple sentence?
100
a non-fiction text
What is to inform?
100
stanzas tell you it is a ____________
What is a poem?
200
a comparison that does not use like or as and is not meant to be taken literally such as "loving you is a walk in the park"
What is metaphor?
200
How the story makes you feel while reading it
What is mood?
200
the correct way to separate adjectives in a list is to use what?
What is a comma
200
a poem
What is to entertain?
200
titles tell you this
What is what's the story about?
300
an intentional exaggeration such as "I would wait for you until all the seas went dry"
What is hyperbole?
300
This answers the questions when and where or time and place
What is setting?
300
this part of speech describes adjectives and verbs
What is an adverb?
300
a recipe
What is teach/inform?
300
this type of text has bullet points, lists, charts, or pictures
What is informational/non-fiction text?
400
sound words such as "boom! pow!"
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a universal truth, moral, or idea that can be applied to other stories
What is theme?
400
this is something that changes or makes something more specific in your sentence. Example: After running the marathon, TIM went home to rest.
What is a modifier?
400
an autobiography
What is to entertain/inspire?
400
the point of view of a text that has the pronouns he, she, they, them, or character names.
What is third person point of view?
500
giving non-human things human qualities such as "her hair danced in swirling movements, like ribbons caught in the wind"
What is personification?
500
something happens in the story that is the opposite of what you expect to happen
What is irony?
500
these are examples: for, and, nor but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
500
an interview
What is to inform/teach?
500
this type of text may have numbered lines and a lot of figurative language
What is a poem?
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