Figurative Language
What is a comparison that uses "like" or "as?"
What is a Simile?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
What is the main idea of a text?
The central point or message the author wants to convey
What two things do you need for a parenthetical citation?
Last name of the author and the page number
What is Mr. Stark's favorite color?
Purple
This gives human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
A term for a word that modifies a noun or pronoun, such as "big" or "smart"
What is an adjective?
What term describes the order of events in a story?
Plot
The literal meaning of a word and the emotional meaning of a word
Denotation and Connotation
This movie is about a Vietnam war veteran who starts his own shrimp restaurant
Forrest Gump
A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning, such as "spill the beans" or "barking up the wrong tree."
What is an idiom?
Punctation mark at the end of a sentence that is a question
Question mark
What is external conflict?
A repeated consonant sound at the beginning of a phrase, such as "she sells sea shells by the sea shore"
Hint: NOT tongue twister
Alliteration
1st Person point of view uses what kind of words?
5 of them
I, me, my, we, and us
This statement is an exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
What is the difference between "there," "their," and "they're"
There: a location
Their: they own it
They're: they are
What is the word for taking an author's words and using as though they were your own?
Plagiarism
An object or action that means somehting more than its literal meaning?
A symbol
This planet has a ring!
But it's also blue
uranus
A direct comparison of two things that doesn't use "like" or "as,"
What is the difference between "its" and "it's"
Its: it owns it
It's: it is
What does it mean to make an inference?
Make predictions
What is mood? What about tone?
Mood: The emotional feeling of a story
Tone: The author's attitude toward the topic
Who is Charlie Gordon?
The man in Flowers for Algernon who gets surgery to make him smarter.