Figurative Language
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
Writing notes or comments directly on a text.
What is annotation?
A text structure that shows similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
The beginning of a story where characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A brief statement of the main ideas of a text without personal opinion.
What is an objective summary?
A type of appeal that uses logic and reasoning.
What is logos?
The central message, lesson, or moral of a story.
What is the theme?
When an author uses descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
A logical conclusion reached using text clues and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
A text structure that shows how one event leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
The point in the story when the central conflict becomes clear and the reader understands what the character is truly up against.
What is the rising action?
When an object, color, or action represents an idea beyond its literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
The main character who drives the action of the story.
Who is the protagonist?
The reason an author writes a text (to persuade, inform, entertain, etc.).
What is author’s purpose?
A technique where an author addresses opposing viewpoints in an argument.
What is a counterclaim?
The point in a story where the central conflict begins to resolve and the consequences of the character’s actions become clear.
What is the resolution?
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal words.
What is an idiom?
The central struggle or problem that drives the story, divided into types such as “character vs. nature” or “character vs. society.”
What is external conflict?
Evidence or details from the text used to support an answer or claim.
What is textual evidence?
A text structure where events or ideas are presented in the order they occur, often emphasizing cause-effect relationships or development over time.
What is chronological or sequential structure?
A conflict that takes place inside a character’s mind.
What is internal conflict?