Figurative Language
Elements of Story
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Mix it Up!
100
A word that is the sound it takes to say it.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Where we learn setting, meet main characters and find out what the story will be about.
What is the exposition?
100
A text that is not true and is often written to entertain.
What is Fiction?
100
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is stanza?
100
The little lesson that you learn. The moral of a story.
What is Theme?
200
Jane sat in awe as the stars danced across the night sky.
What is Personification?
200
The part of a story that reveals or suggests a final outcome.
What is the resolution?
200
What is the purpose of the following passage? Butterflies are colorful, flying insects from the Lepidoptera order. Because they are insects, they have three body parts. The three body parts are called the head, thorax, and abdomen. They also have six jointed legs, two antennae and compound eyes.
What is to inform?
200
Has no rhyme scheme or stanzas
What is Free Verse?
200
When someone uses what they already know, apply it to an new situation and make an educated guess.
What is inference?
300
Compares two things using like or as.
What is Simile?
300
In what part of a story do we learn the main conflict?
What is the Rising Action?
300
What would be the author's purpose when writing fiction novels?
What is to entertain?
300
Because I do not hope to turn again; Because I do not hope; Because I do not hope to turn; Is an example of?
What is repetition?
300
When you take a word or statement to mean exactly what is says.
What is literal?
400
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is Hyperbole?
400
The events and complications begin to resolve the central conflict. The reader knows what has happened, and what may happen next and if the conflict was resolved or not.
What is the Falling Action?
400
What is the purpose of the following passage? Sandy is the absolute best candidate for student body president! She is honest, friendly and dedicated to making our school a better place. This is YOUR chance to make a positive change! VOTE SANDY IN 2017!
What is to persuade?
400
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Example: Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate
What is rhyme?
400
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism". Identify the figurative language.
What is alliteration?
500
John was a strong ox as he rolled the boulder up the steep hill.
What is Metaphor?
500
Describe the climax of a story.
The most intense or extreme part of a story where the action typically takes place and turns events towards their conclusion.
500
A text that is true and informational.
What is Expository Text?
500
Tells a story of a mythic or national hero and is usually long, serious in tone and doesn't rhyme.
What is an Epic?
500
person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature
What is conflict?
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