Figurative Language Vocab
Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Personification
What point of view are these thoughts? How do you know?
"She thought this was very kind." "He feared a spark might get into his straw and burn him up.
Third Person
Pronouns he, she, him
Is this the topic or the main idea?
FISH
Topic
BUZZZZZ went the bee.
onomatopoeia
What does the r in races stand for and what does it mean?
Restate-
To state again
a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
simile
We lived on the main residential street in town—Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment… Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence.
First Person or Third person and how do you know?
First
We, I
Feelings
They are experiencing it
Bananas grow on trees. They are yellow and grow in bunches. They are long and curved a little bit. You peel them before you eat them. Strawberries are different from bananas. They grow on plants, they are red, and you don't have to peel them.
What is the main idea?
Strawberries and bananas (fruits) are different.
The classroom was a zoo.
Metaphor
What does RUN stand for?
Read, underline, number
An extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
"It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies." -Albus Dumbledore
First person or third person and how do you know?
First person
pronoun my
feelings or beliefs
What question should you ask yourself to find the main idea?
What is the text mostly about?
What is the important point the author wants me to understand?
I told you a million times to stop shouting.
hyperbole
What does the A in races stand for?
Answer
Words like: cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom (sounds like what they describe)
onomatopoeia
The farm next to ours is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gregg. The Greggs have two children, both of them boys. Their names are Philip and William. Sometimes I go over to their farm to play with them. I am a girl and I am eight years old. Philip is also eight years old. Last week something very funny happened. I am going to tell you about it as best as I can.
First Person
Pronouns ours and I
They are experiencing it, happening to them
What is the difference between main idea and theme?
Main idea: What the text is about
Theme: The lesson, message, or moral of the text
Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
Personification
What does the E stand for in RACES?
Explain
The comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
metaphor
“The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.
First person or third person and how do you know?
Third Person
Talking about other people, villagers
Factual information-date, amount of people
they did not experience it
How do you prove your main idea?
Providing supporting details
Don't delay dawns disarming display.
alliteration
What do the C and S stand for in RACES and what do they mean?
C- cite; provide text evidence
S- sum it up; pull it all together