Poetry/Figurative Language
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Figurative Language
Important Terms
Important Terms
Text Structure
100
The way a poem is organized.
What are lines and stanzas?
100
Extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
100
Series of events in the story. Includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
What is Plot?
100
The author's attitude toward the subject which he is writing about.
What is Tone?
100

This text structure describes characteristics of something.

Clue words in the text: for example, such as, adjectives

What is Descriptive?

200

Language that appeals to the senses. Often creates a mental picture in the reader's mind.

What is imagery?

Figurative Language also accepted

200
Crack, Pop, Bang, Clump are all examples of
What is an onomatopoeia?
200

the main message or most important idea in an informational text that connects all the details and information together.

What is central idea?

200
The feeling the reader gets from the selection.
What is mood?
200

This text structure lists a sequence of events either in a time-based order, or could be a list of steps.

Clue Words: first, next, last, finally, dates, years

What is Chronological Order?

300
The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of words.
What is alliteration?
300
A comparison using like or as. Example: You are as smart as a whip.
What is a simile?
300

an attitude toward or outlook on something. 

Hint: "A Long Walk to Water" had two of these.

What is Perspective?
300

The author's message to the reader about life.

What is theme?

300

This text structure discusses similarities and differences between two or more things.

Clue words: like, unlike, similarly, However, one the other hand, etc.

What is Compare and Contrast?

400

When a word has the same ending sound as another word. Usually this creates a pattern throughout a poem.

What is rhyming or what is rhyme or what is rhyme scheme?

400
Example - The wind gently kissed her neck.
What is personification?
400

a conclusion/assumption gathered from logical reasoning and an investigation of available evidence in the text.

What is an inference?

400
When an author hints about things that will happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400

This text structure explains events, and the results of those events.

Clue words: Because, consequently, so, etc.

What is Cause and Effect?
500
When an author makes a reference to a well know person, place, book, movie, etc. For example....Here come Curly, Larry, and Moe.
What is allusion?
500
Example: The sun is a glimpse of heaven.
What is a metaphor?
500
The struggle between two opposing forces. May be internal or external.
What is conflict?
500
The "good guy" in the story. The character the reader is siding with or cheering for.
What is the protagonist?
500

This text structure describes an issue and how it was resolved.

Clue words: because, since, this led to, etc.

What is Problem and Solution?

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