Figurative Language
This type of figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
Simile
📚 What do we call the person who tells the story?
What is the narrator?
✏️ What part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a noun?
📖 What do we call the most important idea of a passage?
What is the main idea?
❓ What punctuation mark ends a question?
What is a question mark?
“The wind whispered through the trees.” What type of figurative language is this?
What is personification?
📚 What is the term for the time and place of a story?
What is the setting?
✏️ What is the correct pronoun: "Sarah and ___ went to the park." (I or me)
What is I?
📖 What do we call facts and details that support the main idea?
What are supporting details?
❓ What type of book would you use to find the meaning of a word?
What is a dictionary?
What type of figurative language is in the sentence: "He is a walking dictionary"?
What is a metaphor?
📚 What is the struggle between opposing forces in a story called?
What is conflict?
✏️ What part of speech describes an action?
What is a verb?
📖 If a story is told from “I” or “me,” what point of view is that?
What is first-person point of view?
❓ What do we call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
What is an antonym?
Identify the figurative language: “Boom! Crash! The thunder roared!”
What is onomatopoeia?
📚 What is the sequence of events in a story called?
What is the plot?
✏️ What is the correct verb: "She ___ to the store every day." (go or goes)
What is goes?
📖 What is it called when you make an educated guess about what will happen next?
What is a prediction?
❓ What kind of sentence is this: "Please sit down."
What is an imperative sentence?
What type of figurative language is in: “She sells seashells by the seashore”?
What is alliteration?
📚 What do we call a lesson or message the author wants to share through the story?
What is the theme?
✏️ Identify the subject in the sentence: "The dog barked loudly at the mailman."
What is "The dog"?
📖 What is it called when you explain what a story means in your own words?
What is summarizing?
❓ What do we call words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings, like "their," "there," and "they're"?
What are homophones?