Figurative Language
Snap! Crackle! Pop!
What is onomatopoeia?
A warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
Vikings
A logical conclusion drawn from a text.
What is an inference?
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is theme?
equal equivalent
What are synonyms?
Bill boxed Red Chief in the ears.
What is man vs. man?
A sentence or two that states the main idea of their essay or writing.
What is a thesis?
Persuade, inform, and entertain are all forms of this.
What is author's purpose?
She is as wise as an owl.
What is a simile?
Someone's perspective
What is point of view?
Bearkats
What is Bossier High School?
A shorter version of a text
What is a summary?
The location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place
What is setting?
pre re
What are prefixes?
Buck was swept away down the river.
What is man vs. nature?
The first sentence of a paragraph that tells what you will say.
What is the topic sentence?
The emotional weight that a word conveys. It could be positive, negative or neutral.
What is connotation?
Coach Smith is a saint.
What is a metaphor?
Say it again, again, again, again.
What is repetition?
Buccaner
What is Haughton High School?
Things that are arranged based on time or dates
What is chronological order?
The villain of the story.
What is the antagonist?
compare contrast
What are antonyms?
Katniss was afraid to trust Peeta.
What is man vs. self?
Giving credit to a person whose work you have used in your writing.
What is a citation?
A type of text that is valid and provides facts.
What is an informational text?
I felt like the chocolate cake was calling my name.
What is personification?
When something unexpected happens or you know something the character doesn't know.
What is irony?
Roadrunners
What is Meadowview Elementary?
What is compare and contrast?
The series of events in a story
What is plot?
ELA Science Social Studies Math
What are school subjects?
Tris fights to end factions in Divergent.
What is man vs. society?
This is usually your opening sentence- it makes the reader interested in reading your paper.
What is a hook?
You can use these to determine the meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
It was taking forever for the day to end.
What is a hyperbole?
To reference something famous for example she danced like Beyonce.
What is an allusion?
Mustangs
What is Greenacres?
When there is an issue and you give possible suggestions to help fix them
What is problem and solution?
The action begins to build along with the excitement and suspense
What is rising action?
situational verbal dramatic
What are types of irony?
Frodo struggles with wanting to destroy the ring and being tempted to keep it.
What is man vs. self?
You put these at the beginning and end of a direct quote.
What are quotation marks?
What is mood?
Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.
What is alliteration?
The use of an object to represent an idea or thing
What is symbolism?
Panthers
What is Parkway High School?
Text structure that explains the reason something happened.
What is cause and effect?
A character that develops throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
and but so
What are conjunctions?
Brian struggling to survive in the wilderness after a plane crash.
What is man vs. nature?
Something asked not for the answer, but to make people think or to have an effect on the reader.
What is a rhetorical question?
You support your claim with this.
What is text evidence?
Only choice
What is an oxymoron?
Words that read the same backward and forward.
What is a palindrome?
Bombers
What is Bellaire Elementary School?
A writing that is disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair.
What is bias?
The overall feeling of your story.
What is tone?
First Second Finally
What are transitions?
Jonas is mad at his community who wants to release Gabe, so he runs with Gabe to save him.
What is man vs. society.
GST means....
What is general, specific, and thesis?
Opposing information in an article or text.
What is a counter-argument?