Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
the category or type of literature
What is genre?
Clearly and accurate
What is precise?
The writer's attitude
What is tone?
A comparison of two thing without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
The sequence of events that form a story
What is plot?
A reference to a famous story, person, object, or event
What is allusion?
a hint of hints in the surrounding text that can help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word
What is context clues?
facts and examples that support a claim
What is evidence?
An imitation of natural sounds in word form
What is an onomatopoeia?
A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot
What is the climax?
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
What is internal rhyme?
to determine something by using evidence from the text
What is infer?
the writer's position on a debatable topic
What is claim?
When the author gives an idea, object, or animal human-like qualities
What is personification?
Occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved
What is falling action?
a series of lines grouped together to divide a poem
What is a stanza?
An indication that something will happen in the future
What is foreshadowing?
a set of claims, evidence, and reasons to persuade others to take a certain action
What is an argument?
Several words in a row that begin with the same sound
What is alliteration?
A related series of events in a literacy plot that build toward the point of greatest interest
What is rising action?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
What is rhyme scheme?
An element of literature that introduces the key background information of a narrative
What is an exposition?
Group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and forms a sentence or part of a sentence
What is clause?