Genres
A biography is a type of fiction written by a person about their own life.
True or False?
FALSE
The name for an author of a poem.
POET
When you are asked what the whole point or focus was of a paragraph, section, or entire book, you are being asked for the...
MAIN IDEA
A comparison where an author says that something is something else.
METAPHOR
To say something aloud from memory.
RECITE
How does an author organize a biography?
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
The name for a group of lines in a poem. Like a poem's paragraph.
STANZA
The main idea of a passage is always supported by what?
DETAILS
The type of figurative language where an author gives human-like attributes to non-human objects.
PERSONIFICATION
An event that causes pain or loss.
HARDSHIP
A type of fiction that has believable characters, settings, and believable story events is called...
REALISTIC FICTION
A set of two rhyming lines in a poem.
A couplet
What are the job of supporting details?
TO SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA/PROVE THE POINT/ELABORATE ON THE MAIN POINT
"The rock concert was as loud as a freight train" is an example of what type of figurative language?
SIMILE
Comparing two objects using the words "like" or "as".
SIMILE
A type of fiction that has unbelievable characters, events, or settings is called...
FANTASY
Label the rhyme scheme:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet,
and so are you!
ABCB pattern
What would be a good main idea to place on top of the 4 provided supporting details?
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-You could shovel the driveway.
-You could make a snowman and snow angels.
-You can go sledding.
-You could build a snow fort.
THINGS TO DO ON A SNOW DAY
FUN OUTDOOR WINTERTIME ACTIVITIES
What is being personified in the following sentence:
"The wildflowers danced in the warm Summer breeze."
WILDFLOWERS
The pattern assigned to the lines of rhyming poems is called the...
RHYME SCHEME
Everything that is NOT poetry is called...
PROSE
The name given for the type of language all authors use, but particularly poets, to make their writing more descriptive and artistic.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
What would be a good main idea to place on top of the 4 provided supporting details?
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-Laura's infant child died.
-Laura's home was destroyed by wildfire.
-Laura's sister went blind at a young age.
-Laura was asked to move after her family already hard worked hard setting up a homestead.
LAURA FACED MANY CHALLENGES/HARDSHIPS.
Which two types of figurative language are present in the following excerpt?
"She looked at me angrily. She was a lion ready to pounce. Her eyes cut me like a knife. I turned and ran for my life."
METAPHOR (she was a lion)
PERSONIFICATION (eyes cut me)
A word used to describe something clear, bright, or strong.
VIVID