Literary Elements
A life lesson, meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work
What is theme?
This is the position from which something is considered or evaluated, requiring you to look at the narrator's thoughts, feelings, and actions
What is perspective
A comparison of two different things using the words “like” or “as,”
What is a simile
In the sentence "My brother and (me / I) built a model rocket for the science fair," which pronoun is the correct subject pronoun to complete the sentence?
What is I
The correct verb choice for the sentence:
"The boxes of supplies is / are stacked in the corner."
What is are
These are the insights about life conveyed by informational texts that readers must figure out by examining text details
What is central idea?
A type of point of view where the narrator is a voice outside the story, but the reader only sees through one character's eyes
What is third-person limited?
A comparison that says something is something else without using "like" or "as," such as "The classroom was a zoo"
What is a metaphor
The group of pronouns (me, him, her, us, them) used when the action happens to the pronoun.
What are objective pronouns
The correct verb choice for the sentence: "Either the fan or the motor need / needs to be replaced."
What is needs
This is a way of figuring out information that is NOT directly stated in a reading passage by using clues
What is making an inference?
A type of narrator that is an all-knowing observer outside the story and sees through multiple characters' eyes
What is third-person omniscient?
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to a nonhuman subject, such as "The playful wind teased the girl."
What is personification
When the reader cannot tell who or what a pronoun (like he or it) refers to, creating an unclear meaning
What is an ambiguous pronoun
The rule that requires both the subject and the verb in a sentence to be singular or both to be plural
What is subject-verb agreement?
These are the two main types of conflict in a story. What are they? What are their definitions?
What is internal and external conflict. External involves a struggle between a character and an outside force, while internal involves a struggle within a character’s own mind.
1st, - I, My
2nd - You, your
3rd - He, She, They
The figurative language used in the sentence "Eduardo is a bear until he has had coffee in the morning."
What is a metaphor
Pronouns such as my, mine, yours, and theirs fall under this case
What is possessive case
The rule for forming the possessive of plural nouns that already end in s, such as students.
What is add an apostrophe