a statement that cannot be verified or checked for accuracy (based on belief, feeling, etc.)
What is an opinion?
100
speech or language patterns limited to a certain region or time period
What is dialect?
100
to inform, to entertain, to express an opinion, or to persuade...these refer primarily to non-fictions
What is the author's purpose?
100
sequence of events in a story or drama, tells what happens
What is the plot?
100
a group of lines in poetry, similar to the idea of paragraph in prose
What is a stanza?
200
to show how two or more elements are similar
What is to compare?
200
a statement that can be verified or checked for accuracy
What is a fact?
200
action or event which occurs as a result of some cause
What is an effect?
200
atmosphere or emotional quality in a piece of writing, often discovered through examining the setting
What is the mood?
200
the pattern of sounds in a poem often regular, which along with the rhyme, gives poetry a musical quality
What is rhythm?
300
a figure of speech in which non-human things or animals are given human attributes or qualities
What is personification?
300
to show how two or more elements are different
What is contrast?
300
central meaning or message about life expressed in a story, drama or poem
What is the theme?
300
an interruption in the normal flow of events that takes the reader back to a previous time, it helps the reader to understand the present action of the story
What is a flashback?
300
two lines, usually of the same length, with the same end rhyme
What is a couplet?
400
an object in a literary work which represents something other than itself, though it remains itself
What is a symbol?
400
deliberate use of exaggeration to add humor or to make a point
What is hyperbole?
400
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words or of stressed (accented) syllables ... the bumble bees buzzed briskly around the tree
What is alliteration?
400
highest point of interest and action in the plot
What is the climax?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: a figure of speech in which two things are compared directly, without the use of "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
500
the use of a word or phrase that sounds like or suggests what it means, such as "buzz", "hiss" or "snap, crackle and pop"
What is onomatopoeia?
500
imaginative language used for descriptive effect and not meant to be taken literally (literally = words mean exactly what they say)
What is figurative language?
500
a hint or clue that helps a reader predict outcomes in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: brings the action of a plot and the conflict to a close