Definitions
A comparison that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The leaves were whispering in the wind
What is personification?
The main character, usually a good person, in a story
What is a protagonist?
The site of the National Tulip Festival
What is Holland?
Clues that might help form a definition of an unknown word
What are context clues?
Giving nonhuman things human characteristics
What is personification?
A fire station catches on fire
Words the author uses to "paint" a picture in your mind
What is imagery?
The state where the Everglades are
What is Florida?
When an author makes a reference to another person's work
What is an allusion?
An exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
Events are put in to time order
What is chronology?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
This condiment will never go bad
What is honey?
How the author feels about what they are writing about
What is tone?
A phrase that is specific to a culture
What is an idiom?
The Statue of Liberty represents freedom
What is symbolism?
The feeling or emotion attached to a word
What is connotation?
This is the state flower of Ohio
What is the carnation?
Taking a longer piece and explaining it to someone in your own words
What is a summary?
Coming to a conclusion about something based on reasoning
What is an inference?
Maleficent in "Sleeping Beauty"
What is an antagonist?
The method companies and products use to get us to purchase their products or how groups get us to believe a certain belief
What is propaganda?
This is the number one most consumed food on Super Bowl Sunday
What is pizza?
A statement that is usually at the end of an introduction paragraph and tells the reader what the text will be about
What is a thesis statement?