Figurative Language
What is personification?
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics and/or emotions
Define nonfiction
Writing based on true events, people, and places
A Homophone is a word that sounds like another word, but is spelled differently
True
The high point of interest, turning point, or change in the story for the main character
Climax
The terms used to describe how things are similar or different
Compare & contrast
What does hyperbole mean?
An exaggeration
Define fiction
Made-up writing that is not factually true
An inference is an educated guess about something based on what you already know?
True
A category or type of literature
Genre
The terms used to describe when an activating event happens and it's result...
Cause & effect
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
What type of story is written to be performed in front of an audience?
Drama/Play
To paraphrase means to put the main events of the story into your own words
False (this is summarization)
The lesson taught by the literary work
Theme
The term used to describe when items in a story take place on a chronological time line...
Sequencing
A comparison of 2 unlike things
A type of rhythmic work that uses figurative language and usually plays on emotions
Poetry
A preamble comes at the end of the story
False
A person or animal or object who takes part in the action of the story
Character
Items in the story that tell about and support the main idea
Supporting details
Provide an example of onomatopoeia
BOOM! POW!
A piece of work written about a person's own life
Autobiography
Dialogue is something only the main character will have
False
A message or purpose the author is trying to express through a literary work (The tortoise and the hare)
Moral
What is the term for making an educated guess about something that might happen later in the story
Inference