Reading 1
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
To use strong exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Using what you know (schema) and what you read to come to a conclusion or make a guess about something that is not explicitly stated in the story
What is inference?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
Specific details or facts that support an idea or inference.
What is text evidence?
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
I passed that test by the skin of my teeth!
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
When text is written with an outside view using the pronouns he, she, it, they, him, her, or them.
What is 3rd person point of view?
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
Another term for main idea
What is the central idea?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of an essay that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
What is a conclusion?
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She's an absolute beast on the soccer field!
Metaphor
When words sounds alike but have different meanings/spellings.
Homophone
A phrase or expression of figurative language with a non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
What are idioms?