Figurative Language Examples
Figurative Language Definitions
Text Structure Examples
Text Structure Definitions
Elements of Plot
100
I sat still, like an owl.
What is simile?
100
Two things that are compared using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
100
It is fun to read about chimpanzees. All wild chimpanzees live in Africa. They live mostly in thick rain forests and in woodlands. There are two types, or species, of chimpanzees. - The common chimpanzee and the bonobo, also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
What is description?
100
A list or set of characteristics will follow.
What is description?
100
Turning point of a story.
What is climax?
200
Fading memories are footprints in sand.
What is metaphor?
200
Two things that are compared by saying one is the other.
What is metaphor?
200
Chimpanzees and humans are alike in many ways. A baby chimp laughs when its mother tickles it. After chimpanzees fight, they kiss and make up. When one chimp comforts another, it gives it a hug or pat on the back. There are, of course, many ways that chimpanzees and humans are different. Chimpanzees are smaller and stronger than humans. An adult male chimpanzee stands three or four feet tall and weights about 100 pounds. But a chimpanzee can lift more weight than a man who is six feet tall.
What is comparison?
200
A chronological order of events or steps in a process being described.
What is sequence?
200
Introduction of characters, setting, and conflict.
What is exposition?
300
The long grass played in the wind.
What is personification?
300
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
Chimpanzees live in groups and like each other a lot, but sometimes they fight. Because they don't want to stay angry at each other after a fight, they make up by holding a hand out to the other and kissing. They show that they are sorry with pats and hugs. Then the anger goes away.
What is cause and effect?
300
Likeness or differences are being presented and/or described.
What is compare and contrast?
300
All conflicts are resolved.
What is resolution?
400
She has tons of money!
What is hyperbole?
400
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
A chimpanzee's body is made for climbing and swinging in the trees. First, it uses its long arms to reach a branch. Next, with its flexible hands and feet, it grabs and hooks on to the branch. Finally, it swings from that branch to another branch or tree.
What is sequence?
400
Evidence of cause(s) and effect(s) are given.
What is cause and effect?
400
Main conflict is resolved.
What is falling action?
500
... the moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
500
Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.
What is problem solution?
500
Evidence of problem(s) or solution(s) will be described.
What is problem and solution?
500
Conflict increases. Main part of story.
What is rising action?
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