Figurative Language
What type of figurative language gives human like qualities to objects or animals?
What is personification?
What story element can be defined as a series of events that take place throughout the story?
What is plot?
What point of view is this written in?: I couldn't believe my eyes. My father had bought me a new car for my birthday. To celebrate we went out for dinner.
What is first person point of view?
What does RACE stand for?
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Evidence?
What is an adjective?
What is a describing word?
"My hand is going to fall off from all this writing!" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a hyperbole?
What story element can be defined as the universal lesson or message that an author expresses in a story?
What is theme?
To identify point of view, what part of speech do you look for in a sentence or group of sentences?
What are pronouns?
When citing a BOOK, what 3 things do you need to include in the citation?
What is the author's name, name of the book, and page number of the cited quote?
There, their, or they're?
I hope _______ going to be able to plant crops this year.
What is they're?
What is the main difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Both compare two things but a simile uses like or as and a metaphor uses is, are, was, and were.
What are the 5 elements of plot in order?
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
When identifying point of view, what do we ignore/don't take into consideration?
What is dialogue or words in quotations?
A single sentence that states an essay's main idea is called the essay's ______. It states a claim and sets up the paper.
What is a thesis statement?
What is a word that has the same sound but has a different spelling and meaning?
For example: A black bear lives in a forest. The cupboards are bare since we didn't go to the store.
What is a homophone?
"You did that for me?" Sarah asked, raising her eyes in disbelief. "You're a peach!" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an idiom?
Name the 4 different types of conflict (external and internal).
What is man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, and man vs. self.
What point of view is this written in?: "It's my favorite day of the year!" exclaimed Franky. Franky loved the first day of school. He was wearing his favorite shirt. "I can't wait to see all my friends!" shouted Franky to his mom.
What is third person point of view?
What 3 things NEED to be in your introduction paragraph when writing an essay?
What is a rockin' beginning, thesis, and 3 strong reasons that support the claim being made in the essay?
Part of speech! What part of speech is used to connect words or phrases?
What is a conjunction?
Identify the figurative language in the poem and explain what type of figurative language it is:
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken winged bird That can not fly.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
What is a metaphor? The metaphors are life is a broken winged bird and life is a barren field. Therefore life is being compared to a broken winged bird and barren field.
Books can be sorted in categories based on their style, content, and form. The name of this sorting into categories is a book's ______.
What is genre?
When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of more than one character the narrator is what?
What is omniscient?
With your team, get out a sheet of paper and draw a organizer. Write a thesis statement and 3 reasons in the organizer for the following prompt.
"Should the weekend be 3 days (Friday through Sunday) instead of 2 (Saturday and Sunday)?"
Answers vary.
What are 5 types of context clues?
What are Synonym, Antonym, Definition, Example, and Inference context clues?