LET'S READ 1
These words compare two or more things using the words "like or as"
What is a Simile?
This is the sentence that sets the tone for a paragraph and is surrounded by supporting details.
What is a topic sentence?
This is the central idea or main subject of a text.
What is the theme?
This is the point of view of the author when the author is telling the story from the point of view of a character in the story.
What is first person point of view?
These are words that give human traits to unhuman things.
What is personification?
This is a piece of information that shows important events in the order in which they happen.
What is a timeline?
Her smile was a sunrise, is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a Metaphor?
It was raining cats and dogs is a type of this figurative language.
What is an Idiom?
This means a reader must figure out what the theme of a writing is based on details within the text.
What is to infer?
This is just a portion of a story or writing that is used to temp a reader to read the entire story.
What is an excerpt?
In this type of writing the author uses words such as similar to, also, like, in contrast and however.
What is comparison?
There are three ways to tell a fictional story. They are first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient. These are also known collectively as
What is authors point of view?
This is a drawing of a region or an area that can include land features, cities, roads and highways, surface temperatures and populations. It also includes a legend.
What is a map?
These are words that compare two unlike things.
What is a Metaphor?
This is the marks used to show that a portion of a writing is something being said by someone directly?
What are quotation marks?
This is a common expression that cannot be clearly understood by the literal meaning of the words used.
What is an Idiom?
These words imitate the sounds they stand for.
What is onomatopoeia?
This method uses your own words to retell a story in a shorter version.
What is a summary?
His explanation was a clear as mud is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a Simile?
In this description the writer uses the words of the author verbatim with only a few sentences of the writers opinion to retell a story.
What is to paraphrase?
This form of writing explains things in and order and uses words such as first, next and last.
What is chronology?
How the Hubble Telescope works is an example of this type of writing.
What is informational?
These exaggerations, given for effect, are so dramatic that the reader will know it is not true.
What is a Hyperbole?
DAILY DOUBLE
Comparison, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Chronology and Description are examples of the way an author organizes their writings.
What is text structure?
The horses clippidy clopped down the old brick street is an example of this figurative language.
What is Onomatopoeia?