Figurative Language
"He is as smart as a computer."
What is a simile?
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
A dot that ends a sentence "."
What is a period?
What are the 5 different types of Text Structures?
1. Descriptive
2. Cause and Effect
3. Problem and Solution
4. Compare and Contrast
5. Sequence
The events that happen in a story.
The setting, the characters, the conflict, the plot
What is a plot?
"You're driving me up the wall!"
"Her brain is the size of a pea!"
What is a hyperbole?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Examples: silly, helpful, pretty, tall
What is an adjective?
Is this a sentence fragment or complete sentence?
The students' groups
What is a sentence fragment?
The type of Text Structure that explains how something happens or is done, a step-by-step process, or a timeline of events.
What is Sequence?
The time and place that a story takes place.
The mood, the conflict, the setting, the theme.
What is the setting?
"My brother is a race car."
What is a metaphor?
This is a piece of literature that is based on imaginary people, events, and worlds. The novels we have read in class are examples of this type of literature.
What is Fiction?
Name the subject(s) of this sentence:
My mom and dad drive to the city together to work every day.
What are "my mom and dad"?
Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors. Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate. Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not. Even though more chocolate ice-cream is sold across the country annually than strawberry, each flavor tastes great inside of a milk shake.
Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Descriptive, Sequence
What is Compare and Contrast?
The problem in a story is called:
What is a conflict?
"It rained cats and dogs"
What is an Idiom?
When two words mean the same thing. Ex: happy, excited
What is a synonym?
The following sentence is either a simple sentence, compound sentence, or complex sentence:
The dog ran and he ate popcorn.
What is a compound sentence?
Freezer burn may have wasted more ice-cream than sidewalks. If you don’t know, freezer burn is when ice crystals form on the surface of ice-cream. These ice crystals can ruin the texture and flavor of the ice cream. But you can prevent freezer burn. Since freezer burn is caused when melted ice-cream is refrozen, rather than eating your ice-cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice-cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately. Doing this ought to help you solve your issues with freezer burn.
Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Descriptive, Sequence
What is Problem and Solution?
The two types of conflicts in a story.
What are internal and external conflicts?
Giving non-living objects human qualities.
What is personification?
A word that modifies a verb or adjective.
What is an adverb?
The following sentence is either an Exclamatory, Declarative, Imperative, or Interrogative.
Tell me if I should go to Hawaii or Alaska for my summer vacation.
What is an imperative sentence?
No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in “Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts,” a cook book that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!
Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Descriptive, Sequence
What is Sequence?
The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.
Examples: Love, Family, Trust, Honesty
What is the theme?