Figurative Language
An exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement/humor
What is hyperbole?
The beat of the poem heard in the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
A character's struggle that takes place INSIDE the character's mind or heart
What is an internal conflict?
What is predicting?
When an author shows a strong preference for one side of an issue and does not present information in a fair or balanced way
What is bias?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The voice of the poem (similar to the narrator of a story)
What is the speaker?
A character's struggle against an OUTSIDE opposing force
What is an external conflict?
The reader "makes a movie" in their mind while reading a text
What is visualizing?
The advantages and disadvantages described in an informational text
What are pros and cons?
To describe non-human things using human characteristics
What is personification?
The repeating of words, phrases, lines, or whole stanzas to emphasize a feeling or idea
What is repetition?
A struggle between a character and something like a hurricane or wildfire or the frigid cold
What is a character vs. nature conflict?
Making relationships to the text in three ways: text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world
What is connecting?
Another name for an author's point of view or beliefs about a topic or issue
What is author's perspective?
An expression that means something other than what it literally says (i.e. It's raining cats and dogs.)
What is an idiom?
The technique of writing in shorter lines to slow down the reader's pace
What is a line break?
A struggle with another character in the story; often protagonist vs. antagonist
What is a character vs. character conflict?
Briefly restating the most important ideas of a text; leaving out minor details
What is summarizing?
A viewpoint that disagrees with the author’s main claim; often given to understand both sides of an issue
What is a counterclaim?
Words or phrases that create contradictions when placed together (i.e. icy hot; bittersweet)
What is an oxymoron?
A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet (beginning with “A”) to each line; lines that rhyme are given the same letter
What is a rhyme scheme?
A struggle between a character and the laws or beliefs of a government, culture, family, or social norms
What is a character vs. society conflict?
Using clues from the text plus your own knowledge to figure out ideas the author doesn’t state directly
What is inferring?
When information in a text is accurate, neutral, and fair and the author is knowledgeable and trustworthy, the text is considered ___________?
What is credible?