figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
What prefix means "again"?
What is 're'
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?
this word means to be enough of adequate.
What is suffice?
a direct comparison of two different things using 'like' or 'as'
What is simile
what prefix means 'before'?
What is 'pre'?
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
words that have the same or similar meanings; for example,
large/big.
what is a synonym?
this word means to stare or look directly at someone or something.
What is peer?
what prefix means 3?
What is 'tri'?
the people (or animals) in a story. They are whom the story is about.
What is characters?
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
What is pectorals?
what suffix means 'two'?
What is bi
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
To walk unsteadily
What is to stumble?
the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words near each other in a text;
for example, Bob’s big balloons.
What is alliteration
What prefix means 4?
quad
the use of specific language to create a picture in the reader’s mind.
what is imagery?
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
this word means exciting or thrilling
what is exhilarating?