Figurative Language
simile
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Exposition
A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Description
A spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.
Phrase
A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
A.C.E. Method
Analysis, Comparison, Evaluation, and Verification.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Rising Action
Refers to all the events that happen in a story on the way to the climax
Cause & Effect
The principle of causation.
Clause
A unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
Different POVs
1st person POV uses the pronouns “I” and “we.” 2nd person POV uses the pronoun “you.” 3rd person POV uses the pronouns “she,” “he,” “they,” and “it.”
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Climax
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
Compare & Contrast
Showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.
Simple Sentence
Conflict
A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
Idiom
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
Falling Climate
The stage in which the conflict is in the process of becoming resolved and tension decreases
Chronology
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.
Compound Sentence
A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
Modifier
A person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something.
Hyberbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Conclusion
The end or finish of an event or process.
Problem & Solution
A format of writing that involves setting up the structure of written text to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.
Complex Sentence
Main Idea
A general statement about the paragraph (or reading selection).