A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A conversation between two or more people.
What is Dialogue?
The main idea or main point that the author is making, or what the text is mostly about.
What is Central Idea?
A mark used to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause.
What is a Comma?
An object, person, situation, event, or action that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
A direct comparison
What is a Metaphor?
Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
What is Foreshadowing?
The 3 Purposes for an Author to write.
What are Entertain, Persuade, and Inform?
A word that connects clauses, and sentences together. It is often used with a comma, but not always.
What is a conjunction?
The feeling created by a piece of literature.
What is Mood?
Gives human characteristics to non-humans.
What is Personification?
The moral or lesson that the story is trying to teach/convey.
What is Theme?
The act of coming to a conclusion based on facts or making and educated guess.
What is an inference?
A punctuation mark used to create a list, an explanation, or a direct quote.
What is a colon :
The author/speaker's attitude toward the subject.
What is Tone?
A statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is an Idiom?
A reference to a person, place, or another work of literature.
What is an allusion?
How a passage is organized.
What is structure?
A punctuation mark used to combine two related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon ;
When a character struggles with an internal or external force.
What is Conflict?
Extreme exaggeration.
What is a Hyperbole?
The positive or negative feelings/emotions that are associated with a word.
What is connotation?
A sentence or two that states the main idea of a text. Often found in the Introduction.
What is a Thesis Statement?
A literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.
What is parallelism?
A symbol that is seen multiple times in a story.
What is a Motif?