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figurative language
nonfiction text structures
elements of a short story
Vocabulary
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Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

100

Syllables are organized by 575

What is a Haiku?

100

where and when an event takes place in a short story

What is setting

100

It is what the passage or paragraph is about.

What is the main idea?

100

a struggle between a person or an outside force

What is external conflict

200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor

200

A funny poem organized by AABBA

What is a limerick?

200

the most intense or exciting high point of a short story

What is climax

200

The reason why an author writes.

What is Author's Purpose?

200

a sign or warning of whats going to happen next

What is foreshadowing

300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300

No set rhyming scheme or rhyme.

What is free verse?

300

the main events of a short story

What is plot

300

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What is context clues?

300

visually descriptive or figurative language

What is imagery

400
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
400

Syllables of 57577

What is tanka?

400

the lesson or moral of a story

What is theme

400

The feeling the author wants the reader to get.

What is mood?

400

When the audience knows more than the characters

What is dramatic irony?

500
the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
500

A Shakespearen poem

What is a sonnet?

500

the perspective from which the story's told

What is point of view

500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?

500

A tornado is coming to small town.

What is man vs. nature?