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Figurative Language
100

Indicates the beginning of a new topic or section in a text.

What is heading or subheading?

100

This is an author's reason for writing. Hint: PIE.

What is author's purpose?

100

This is a reasonable guess based on what you know from experience.

What is a prediction?

100
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is climax.
100
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile.
200

Contains information about an image or illustration.

What is the caption?

200

This acronym stands for restate, answer, cite, and explain.

What is R.A.C.E.?

200

This is to read quickly.

What is skim?

200
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution.
200
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia.
300

Used to display information about an image or to call attention to additional information.

What is a box, speech balloon, or other shape?

300

This is a logical guess based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.

What is an inference?

300

Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.

What is nonfiction?

300
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition.
300

To make a comparison between two things that are not alike, but do have something in common.

What is a metaphor?

400

Call attention to information and organizes a text, such as highlighting text, doodles, and colored backgrounds.

What is color effects?

400

These are the qualities shown by a character, such as physical traits (tall with brown eyes) or expressions of personality (kind or anxious).

What are character traits?

400

An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period and place he or she was born in.

What is setting?

400
Events in a story that build up the conflict.
What are rising action events?
400

Extreme exaggeration in order to make a point.

What is a hyperbole?

500

A large capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph.

What is a drop cap?

500

This is how a character changes over the course of a story.

What is character development?

500

This type of text conveys ideas through text and visual details.

What is a multimodal text?

500
Events that lead up to the resolution of a story.
What are falling action events.
500
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification.