Figurative Language
A figure of speech where non-human things are given human-like qualities.
Example: The mountain woke up and stretched his arms to the sky.
A. personification
B. humanification
C. tranformers
D. Blue Kool-Aid
What is personification?
The beginning of the story.
A. introspection
B. introduction
C. entrance
D. enhance
What is the introduction?
Written stories about people or events that aren't true.
A. fantasy
B. non-fiction
C. fiction
D. Philadelphia
What is fiction?
Text follows steps and procedures. (First, next, then, finally)
A. problem/solution
B. sequence/procedure
C. description
D. spaceships
What is sequence/procedure?
A word that has an opposite meaning to another word.
Example: hot:cold
A. synonym
B. cinnamon
C. opponym
D. antonym
What is an antonym?
A comparison between two things that uses the words "like" or "as."
Example: Their smile was as bright as the Sun.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. dragonbreath
D. idiom
What is a simile?
A series of events that moves the story along.
A. plot
B. pilot
C. pilates
D. pop goes the weasel
What is plot?
Texts with true stories and real-life information.
A. fiction
B. non-fiction
C. true stories
D. knock-knock jokes
What is non-fiction?
Text that shows how things are similar and/or different from each other.
A. contact and contract
B. compare and contrast
C. description
D. definition
What is compare and contrast?
To try and convince a reader to agree with an opinion.
A. persuade
B. perplex
C. Giant Panda
D. convince
What is persuade?
A comparison between two things that does not use "like" or "as."
Example: That song is pure gold.
A. musician
B. manifold
C. metaphor
D. ballerina
What is a metaphor?
One of the people/things from a story.
A. Charmander
B. people
C. animals
D. character
What is a character?
Writing that is supposed to give the reader facts, details, and/or opinions. Usually has bold headings.
A. example text
B. informational text
C. narrative text
D. text message
What is informational text?
Uses imagery, examples, and details to help the reader understand characters, objects, and events.
A. description
B. information
C. exciting
D. problem and solution
What is description?
Part 1: When the narrator is part of the story and says "me," "I," or "we."
Part 2: When the narrator is not part of the story and uses "he," "she," or "they."
A. 1.first-person point of view 2.second-person point of view
B. 1.third-person point of view 2.first-person point of view
C. 1.second-person point of view 2.eighth-person point of view
D. 1.first-person point of view 2.third-person point of view
What is first-person point of view and third-person point of view?
When the same sound is repeated really close together.
Example: Bruno the baby bulldog buries his bone in the big backyard.
A. affiliation
B. alliteration
C. hyperbole
D. pineapple upside-down cake
What is alliteration?
When and where events in the story take place. The time and place in the story.
A. title
B. setting
C. sitting
D. rainbows
What is the setting?
A. realistic fantasy
B. realized friction
C. ramboozle frashby
D. realistic fiction
What is realistic fiction?
Tells what is wrong and how it was, can be, or will be fixed.
A. compare and contrast
B. cause and effect
C. problem and solution
D. pink slushies
What is problem and solution?
When a word means the same thing as another word.
Example: big:large
A. cymbal
B. synonym
C. antonym
D. same-thing words
What is a synonym?
Language that makes the reader think of their senses.
Example: She loudly bit into the sour green apple.
A. description
B. imagery
C. Wal-Mart
D. feeling
What is imagery?
How the story ends.
A. revolution
B. ending
C. resolution
D. rap music
What is the resolution?
A. fable, myth, fairy-tale, legend
B. fable, myth, factual text, legend
C. legend, myth, factual text, fixed
D. fractions, math, Tuesday, eggs
What are fables, myths, fairy-tales, and legends?
Tells how something made something else happen.
A. compare and contrast
B. conquer and compose
C. cause and effect
D. dominoes
What is cause and effect?
Pick one of the numbers below. Say one way that the two texts are similar and one way that they are different.
1. The Wolf & the Lion and The Lion & the Mouse
2. Tails with Purpose and The Nose Awards
3. Manabozho and the Maple Trees and What the Ash and Maple Learned
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