Figurative Language
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Give an example of a word with a prefix.
Explain its meaning.
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A made up story with characters details, and settings based on historical events
What is a Historical Fiction?
The writer explains a difficult situation for the characters and how the characters fix the situation.
What is Problem and Solution?
The perspective in which the story is being told.
What is Point of View?
Words or phrases that have a different meaning than what is being said.
What are idioms?
9. Context Clues are clues that good readers use to find the meaning of an unknown word.
Give 2 examples of context clues that can be used when determining the meaning of an unknown word.
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The events could happen in real life but the text is not a true story.
What is Realistic Fiction?
The writer shows how characters, events, settings, and things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
The writer’s attitude or perspective about a subject.
What is Author's Point of View?
A figure of speech in which the author gives non-human objects human qualities.
What is personification?
Give 2 examples of synonyms (2 sets of words.)
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A story that includes imaginary characters, settings, and magic.
What is a Fairy Tale?
The order of events in which they happen.
What is Sequence?
The message, the moral, or the lesson of the story
What is Theme?
Compare to unlike things by saying the one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
What is the root word of impossibly?
What is Possible?
A story of a real person’s life that is written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The writer describes an event and what caused it to happen.
What is Cause and Effect?
What the text is mostly about.
What is Main Idea?
Name the figurative language being used in the sentence.
The wind howled in the night.
Explain.
Personification.
The wind in given human qualities.
It is howling.
Give 2 examples of antonyms (2 sets of words.)
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A story that provides factual information about a topic.
An informational text that explains something to the reader.
What is Narrative Nonfiction and Expository Text?
Give an example of a text structure.
Write a sentence (or 2 or a few) using signal words for a specific text structure.
Read it out loud and identify the text structure when you are done.
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Give an example of third person omniscient.
You can take a moment to write it out.
Then present it to the out loud.
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