Literary Elements
Poetry
Poetry cont.
Text structure
Pot luck
100
the most important idea in the passage, it tells what the passage is mostly about
What is Main Idea?
100
a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
why?? what??
What is cause and effect?
100
to entertain, inform, persuade...
What is author's purpose?
200
the central idea or message in a story or poem
What is Theme?
200
a comparison not using the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
an expression whose meaning is differnt from the meaning of its individual words
What is an idiom?
200
similarities and differences are presented between two or more topics or concepts
What is compare and contrast?
200
read around the word to find the meaning of the word is called using...
What is context clues?
300
tells what happened in the story using only the main points
What is summarization?
300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
a vivid description that includes details that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
300
provides information about a topic
What is descriptions?
300
find your answers and prove they are correct by finding your ...
What is evidence?
400
an educated guess based on what you've read and your own prior knowledge
What is inference?
400
a word whose sounds suggests its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
400
the repeating of a word
What is repetition?
400
Question is posed and it's followed by an answer thrpugh out the story
What is question and answer?
400
a story that is made up, not true, fake
What is fiction?
500
the end or close of a story
What is conclusion?
500
the act of giving human qulaties to animals or inanimate objects
What is personification?
500
lines grouped together in a poem
What is a stanza?
500
events are described in order or chronological
What is sequence?
500
a story that is true, not fake
What is non-fiction?
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