Figurative Language
This type of figurative language directly compares two things.
What is a Metaphor?
Title
Graph
Map
Heading
Caption
Timeline
Glossary
Photograph
Table of Contents
Chart
Sidebar
This type of poetry has 3 lines and 17 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
This is the writer’s reason or intent for writing an informational text.
What is Author's Purpose?
What is the Central Idea?
The most important ideas in a text or the most important points an author makes about a topic.
This type of figuative language is an expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its seperate words.
What is an Idiom?
How do text features like Title, Graphs, Pictures, and Headings contribute to the meaning of a text?
What is give us more information and contribute to the meaning of an informational text?
What are words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas?
What is Rhyme?
This is the way the author feels, what they believe and/or their attitude toward the topic or subject of an informational text.
What is Author's Perspective?
How do Relevant details support a Central Idea?
Relevant details tell more information about the topic and support the central idea(s).
Read the following passage:
"One spring morning, Mali and Mr. Taylor worked in the garden. Mr. Taylor added fresh, dark soil. Then Mali raked the soil. Mr. Taylor thought about ways to improve the garden. “This year, Mali, I want to add different flowers to the garden.” “That is a great idea, Mr. Taylor. I could use some of my savings and the profit I earned last year to grow big, crunchy, green peppers. I hope you will loan me more land." Mr. Taylor smiled and said, “Sure! Just give me a few of your peppers.” “It’s a deal!” said Mali."
Identify the type of figurative language in the passage.
What is Imagery?
"....grow big, crunchy, green peppers...."
What text structure uses words and phrases like alike, also, both, but, different, however, in contrast, instead of, on the other hand, opposite from, same, share, similarly?
a) Problem and Soultion
b) Cause and Effect
c) Description
d) Comparison
What is d) Comparison?
This is the basic rhythmic structure of a line.
What is Meter?
A book about how dogs are better than cats is written for what purpose?
What is 2) Inform?
Read the following passage:
"Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fi sh, reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk like other mammals."
What is the Central Idea of this passage?
A dolphin is a mammal
Read the following exerpt:
"My sister, Ruth, and I were sitting in the park across from our new apartment,waiting for a concert to begin. I was hopingthat this fun event would put Ruth in abetter mood. She had been acting like she was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders because she was so woried about moving here."
What type of figurative langaage does the writer use in this passage?
What is a hyperbole?
"She had been acting like she was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders..."
This text structure contains facts, events or details that are shared in the order in which they occurred in time.
a) Description
b) Sequence
c) Chronology
d) Comparison
What is c) chronology?
These are words that create images that appeal to the senses.
What is Imagery?
She was above all a most formidable female. She had once been a famous athlete, and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence. You could see them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy wrists, and in the powerful legs. Looking at her, you got the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half. Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor joy for ever. She had an obstinate chin, a cruel mouth, and small arrogant eyes.
From Matilda by Roald Dahl
What is the purpose of this passage?
What is 3) Describe?
What is a supporting detail from the passage to the central idea that "Meercats live in groups to help each other out?"
Meerkats in Africa live in large groups of 20 to 50 members. The group works together to survive. All members of the group care for the baby meerkats. They take turns babysitting and will protect the young ones from danger. Members of the group also take turns watching out for threats from other animals while the group finds food. If any dangerous animal comes towards the group, the meerkat will bark a warning.
All meerkats in a group take care of the baby meerkats.
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Meerkats in a group take turns watching out for danger.