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Figurative Language
Grammar
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Sound Effects
Literature
100
This compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
these all have something in common: Items in a series, compound sentences, introductory words or phrases, interrupters, coordinating conjunctions
What is things that need commas?
100
This part of an essay contains a hook and a thesis
What is the introduction?
100
words that imitate sound
What is onomatopoeia?
200
giving human qualities to non human things
What is personification?
200
ways to fix a run-on sentence
What is semi-colon, comma conjunction, and a period to make two separate sentences?
200
This can be found in the intro paragraph; it tells the main idea of the text
What is a thesis statement?
200
repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
extra information about a noun or pronoun, can be left out, surrounded by commas
What is an appositive?
300
Poems, Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Cartoons/TV, Ads
What are places to find sound effects?
300
the message or idea an author wants the reader to get
What is theme?
400
a direct comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
400
List ALL the coordinating conjunctions!
What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
400
repetition of final vowel sounds in two or more words
What is rhyme?
400
List the elements of plot in the order they occur in a story
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
500
a play on words that is intended to be humorous
What is a pun?
500
Emotion, sense of being there, draw readers in
What are reasons to use sound effects in writing?