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Figures of Speech
Story Elements
Strategies
Terms to Know
Terms to Know #2
100
Compares two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
The problems in the story
What are conflicts?
100
Telling similarities and differences between 2 things
What is compae & contrast?
100
Visually descriptive language (you can picture what the author is describing)
What is imagery?
100
The reason an author is writing something
What is the author's purpose?
200
Compares two unlike things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
The most intense, dramatic moment of the story
What is the climax?
200
Guessing about what will happen next in a text
What is predicting?
200
Words that mean opposite of each other
What is antonym?
200
Paragraphing in poetry
What are stanzas?
300
Gives human traits to a nonhuman thing
What is personification?
300
The lesson learned in the story; which can be applied to real life
What is the moral?
300
Making a knowledge based on your background knowledge plus the author's clues
What is inferencing?
300
The emotions an author expresses through their writing
What is tone?
300
Visually descriptive language (you can picture what the author is describing)
What is imagery?
400
The repetition of the beginning consonant sound
What is alliteration?
400
When the story goes back in time
What is a flashback?
400
Picturing what is happening in your mind
What is visualizing?
400
Words that mean the same thing
What are synonyms?
400
The point of view that uses "he," "she," "they," etc. No characters' thoughts or feelings are shared
What is third person objective?
500
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
The ending where the loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
Linking your reading to another, yourself, or the world
What is making connections?
500
Words that mean opposite of each other
What are antonyms?
500
The "all-knowing" point of view. An observing who shares the thoughts and feelings of more than one character
What is omniscient?