Figurative Language
What is Hyberbole
These are the three times we ask questions about our reading.
What is Before, During, and After?
This is when and where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is what a paragraph or section of a text is all about.
What is main idea or central idea
These are words that are spelled different but sound the same. "There, They're, Their"
Homophones
This is a comparison of two things using like or as. "He was a sly as a fox."
What is a simile
This skill has us using sensory language to imagine being in the story. "Smell, Sight, Taste, Sound"
What is creating Mental Images?
This is what a character says.
What is dialogue?
This where we can find what a passage will be mostly about
What is the beginning or introduction
These words describe the relation of items or actions in a sentence. "The cat jumped under the bed after running along the dresser."
What are prepositions
This is when human traits are given to non human objects or animals. "The trees whispered in the wind"
What is Personification
This strategy has us thinking about what the author shares, and doesn't share, before using our own knowledge to tie it all together.
What is drawing Inferences?
This is the perspective when a story is written from the character's point of view.
What is First Person?
When I see a small number next to an unknown word in my text where I can look here for the definition of the word.
What is the bottom of the page?
A complex sentence has multiple of these.
This is a comparison WITHOUT using like or as. "The waves were a never ending mountain range."
What is a Metaphor?
These are the three types of connections we make to a text.
What are across texts, prior knowledge, and personal experience?
This is when a story is written from an outside perspective.
What is the third person
You should always use these items in a text that can provide additional information or context to a passage.
What is a graphic feature (graph, picture, model, etc)
What is a comma
This is when you use two contradicting statements for dramatic effect. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
This is the difference between a summary and a synthesis.
What is knowledge from outside the text?
This is how a story makes us feel (emotions)
What is tone
What are supporting details?
This tense is used to describe an action that has occurred in the past before another action was completed.
What is the past perfect verb tense.