Figurative Language
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Fiction
You Should Know
100
Words that are sounds.
What is onomotopoeia?
100
A story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
The time and place a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
What the story is mainly about.
What is central (main) idea?
200
"She is as beautiful as a rose" is an example of...
What is a simile?
200
A story about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
200
The emotion that a piece of literature gives off. Examples: Sad, happy, enthusiastic, depressing, etc.
What is mood?
300
"I am as hungry as a bear" is an example of...
What is a hyperbole?
300
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Description that uses the five senses to provide image of what is being described.
What is imagery?
300
The ending of a story.
What is the resolution?
300
Highlight keywords in the question, eliminate at least 2 answer choices, take notes (who, what, when, where, why, how)
What is how to arrive at the best answer choice.
400
"The chair jumped across the room" is an example of...
What is personification?
400
The reason an author writes. Example: To provide information about why lions are going extinct.
What is the author's purpose?
400
A metaphor that continues for several lines or an entire work of literature.
What is extended metaphor?
400
A moral or lesson learned from a work of literature that can be applied universally.
What is theme?
400
Replace the word in the selection with each answer choice.
What is how to answer questions that ask you to determine the meaning of a particular word?
500
"The road was a ribbon of red" is an example of...
What is a metaphor?
500
When someone (a writer) shows favor to one side over the other.
What is bias?
500
The emotional association of a word that goes beyond the dictionary/literal meaning.
What is connotation?
500
Ways the author reveals his characters. S.T.E.A.L
What is what the characters says, thinks, effects on others, actions, looks
500
What you should do before reading a selection.
What is read the questions?
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