figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
The author of multiple sonnets and play "Romeo and Juliet"
Who is William Shakespeare?
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
A logical approach where you progress from general ideas to specific conclusions
What is deductive reasoning?
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
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What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
A person or animal in the movie, story, or play?
Who is a character?
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
a type of reasoning that involves drawing a general conclusion from a set of specific observations
What is inductive reasoning?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is the rhyme scheme?
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
Susie noticed that every time she eats spicy food, she gets a stomach ache and concludes that spicy food causes stomach aches.
What is inductive reasoning?
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What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet?
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
If you see an abandoned bowl of hot soup on the table and conclude the owner of the soup is likely returning soon.
What is abductive reasoning?
Verse of eight lines
What is octave?
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
When I went outside this morning, the grass was completely covered with dew. It must have rained last night.
What is abductive reasoning?