Figuratively Speaking
The early bird gets the worm.
Idiom
The main part of a word
Root
dis, re, in, un
prefixes
What kind of sentence is this?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers then he decided he would go to work he was tired.
Run-On
Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Society
Conflicts
Name the figurative language used in this sentence.
The wooden wagons were heavy and low-riding with loud rattling wheels, their broad planks too battered and begrimed to recall distant origins as trees.
Alliteration
Writers use these to reinforce the main idea
supporting details
Glossary, Atlas, Almanac
Reference Materials
What's wrong with this sentence?
Charles dickens wrote the book great expectations.
Dickens and the title of the book is not capitalized.
Adjective, Noun, Pronoun
Part of Speech
The trumpet sang out the notes for the Star Spangled Banner.
Personification
Words that imitate the sounds they make
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
This is a.....
The boy's stomach
Sentence Fragment (or an incomplete sentence).
speculate: to consider or draw conclusions about something
What might someone speculate about: yesterday's weather or tomorrow's weather?
Tomorrow's weather
He has a receding hairline, a scruffy beard, and a scowl like a chill wind that sends shivers down the spines of humble privates such as myself.
Simile
A sequence of events in a story
Plot
Another word for coax is persuade.
Synonym
The boy went to the market.
"Went to the market" is what part of the sentence?
the predicate
Name the rhyme scheme
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
ABAAB
It was at the Fairfax railway station that my salvation came in the form of a ministering angel.
Metaphor
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
Marco's pizza is better than Papa John's.
Opinion
There's a grammatical problem in this paragraph. What is it?
The prime minister reports that he runs a mile every day. He said that exercise keeps him alert and focused. He also says that he’s in excellent health.
The verb tense is inconsistent.
The literary term for a universal message
theme