Figurative Language
What TWO types of figurative language are used to compare things together?
Simile and Metaphor
Name a reading strategy that will improve your comprehension of a text.
Answers will vary.
A sentence made up of one independent clause is considered what type of sentence?
Simple
When an author is only giving you details and facts about a subject, what type of text structure do they use?
Descriptive
Dangling Modifier Error. Fix this sentence~
Walking in the park, a snake bit him.
What is....Walking in the park, he was bitten by a snake?
When you are giving a nonhuman subject the traits of a human, this is what type of figurative language?
Personification
What is you can split the two thoughts and make two sentences or you can add a coordinating conjunction and a comma~ compound sentence?
In a compound sentence, what TWO things can join the two independent clauses together.
A FANBOYS or a semicolon ;
If an author introduces an issue and then offers solutions, what type of text structure is this?
Problem and Solution
Misplaced Modifier Error. Correct the sentence.
Winston saw monkeys and peacocks on vacation in India.
What is .... Winston saw monkeys and peacocks while he was on vacation in India?
A creative exaggeration is considered what type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
What should you do if you are reading a text and forget what you are reading about?
What is reread?
When a dependent clause comes FIRST in a complex sentence, what is used to connect it to the independent clause?
a comma!
Which type of text structures highlights the similarities and differences between multiple subjects?
Compare and Contrast
Choose the correct verb.
Everyone generally (leaves, leave) the office around six o'clock.
What is leaves?
"You can either work hard and pass the final, or slack off and risk failing. The ball is in your court." What type of figurative language is found in the quote?
Idiom
How many main ideas are there in a paragraph?
Name all the FANBOYS
For And Nor But Or Yet So
When an author summarizes an initial event, then identifies what happened because of that event, this is considered what type of text structure?
Cause and Effect
Choose the correct verb.
Animals in the wild face many threats. Few actually (lives, live) to die of old age.
What is live?
What is alliteration?
When multiple words have the same beginning sound in a passage.
If you have 2 ideas you want to write about, how many paragraphs should you use?
What is 2 paragraphs?
She returned the computer after she noticed it was broken. What type of sentence is this?
What is complex?
When an author lists events or instructions in order, what TWO names does this text structure go by?
Chronological and Sequence
Bowman and Crittenden