Figurative Language
"This room is as hot as an oven" - is an example of what?
Simile
What word means "a large group of people or animals"?
Herd
What is textual evidence?
Quotes from the text
What does it mean to summarize something?
Give a gist of what it says
What has words but never speaks?
A book
"The thunder boomed outside" - is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
What word means "to care for or help grow"?
Nurture
What is the purpose of textual evidence?
To support your claim
What is a theme?
The moral of the story
Where is the one place Christmas comes before Thanksgiving?
A dictionary
"Seven snakes slithered slyly" - is an example of what?
Alliteration
What is a synonym for the word happy?
Elated, Glad, Content
What is the first step to writing a paragraph with textual evidence?
Restate or turn the question around
What does it mean to contrast two texts?
Highlight the differences
What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
Short
"The tree danced in the wind" - is an example of what?
Personification
What is a synonym for the word hard?
Difficult, Solid, Rough
What do you need to put around your textual evidence?
Quotation marks
Use context to assume the meaning
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
The letter 'E'
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" - is an example of what?
Hyperbole
What is an antonym for the word spend?
Save
What do you need to do after you give text evidence?
Explain
What does it mean to analyze something?
Look at it in detail
What five letter word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its letters?
Queue