figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The order in which events occur.
What is the sequence of events?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
a struggle between a person or an outside force
What is external conflict
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
What is compare and contrast?
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
a sign or warning of whats going to happen next
What is foreshadowing
The soft fur of the dog felt like silk against my skin and her black coloring glistened as it absorbed the sunlight, reflecting it back as a perfect, deep, dark mirror.
What is description?
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
What is a synonym?
It is the reason that things happen. _____ is the why and ______and what happened.
What is cause and effect?
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
The people in the story.
What is character?
comparing two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Characters usually have an issue or ___________and are looking for a ______________.
What is problem/solution?
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
What is connotation and denotation