Figurative Language
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
Person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
Jeremy ran the marathon.
What part of speech is the word RAN?
What is a verb?
This verb tense tells about something that already happened
What is past tense?
The TD in TDA stands for this
What is text-dependent?
An exaggerated statement: We did a million laps at hockey practice!
What is hyperbole?
An action word
What is a verb?
Flamingos like to stand.
The noun in this sentence is:
What is Flamingos?
This verb tense tells about something that's happening now
What is present tense?
The A in TDA stands for this
What is analysis?
Examples of this are: buzz, hiss, meow, creak, and slam!
What is onomatopoeia?
Describes a noun
What is an adjective?
The bright blue ocean rippled in the wind.
What are the words BRIGHT and BLUE?
What are adjectives?
Last week, Sam will play at her neighbor's house.
What words are incorrect? (2 possible answers)
What is 'last week'? OR
What is 'will play'?
This is what you find to support your essay
What is evidence?
A phrase that doesn't mean literally what the words say. For example: hold your horses; piece of cake; as easy as ABC
What is an idiom?
Replaces a noun
The sloth lazily climbed the tree.
What is the adverb in this sentence that tells how the sloth climbed?
What is lazily?
Next year, the band will take a trip, and they marched in the parade.
What word is the error?
What is 'marched'?
(It should be 'will march')
What are the introduction and conclusion?
A section in a poem; similar to a paragraph in a book
What is a stanza?
A word that connects other words in a sentence
What is a conjunction?
That blue house is theirs.
What is the word 'theirs'?
What is a pronoun?
I went to my sister's house yesterday, but she isn't there.
What word is the error?
What is isn't?
(It should be wasn't)
This is the last step in writing a good TDA
What is edit for spelling, grammar, etc.?