Benchmarks
Literature
Skills
Figurative Language
More Figurative Language
100
Mostly what the story is about, like a summary.
What is the Main Idea?
100
The term for the important events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
What is the plot?
100

The good and bad qualities about the characters in a story.

What is character traits.

100

A comparison of two things using the words like or as.

What is a simile.

100

My dad is as strong as an ox.

What is a simile.

200
Something that can be proved or disproved.
What is a fact?
200
The order that things happen in a story.
What is the sequence of events or chronological order?
200

What is something that makes something else happen?

What is the Cause.

200

A comparison of two things.

What is a metaphor.

200

Mom is a real bear what she's mad.

What is a metaphor.

300
What a person thinks or feels about a subject.
What is an opinion?
300
The time and place in which a story happens.
What is the setting?
300
What happens as a result of an action.
What is an effect?
300

Words whose sound suggest its meaning.

What is Onomatopoeia.

300

The old door creaked open.

What is onomatopoeia.

400
Finding how two things are similiar.
What is comparing them?
400
What you think might happen next in the story based on what you have just read.
What is a prediction?
400
A short statement that tells about the Main Idea in a story or article.
What is a summary?
400

Giving human qualities to non-human things.

What is personification.

400

The trees danced around in the breeze.

What is personification.

500
Finding how two things are different.
What is contrasting them?
500
The important message of a story.
What is the theme?
500
What is used to figure out a meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is a context clue?
500

An extravagant exaggeration that can't possibly be true.

What is hyperbole.

500

I could sleep forever.

What is hyperbole.

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