Figurative Language
Gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object.
What is personification?
The main message, lesson, or moral of the text.
What is the theme?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The subject in the following sentence:
My sister played soccer at the park last night.
What is "my sister"?
A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language and gives their meaning.
What is a dictionary?
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Made up of a story's characters, setting, and events.
What is the plot?
A word used to describe an action.
What is a verb?
Words such as and, or, so, after, since, before, either, etc.
What are conjunctions?
A book or electronic resource that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts.
What is a thesaurus?
Words that appeal to the five senses
What is sensory language?
Includes the characters, setting, plot, and events.
What are the literary elements?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A sentence must have these two things to be complete.
What are a subject and a predicate?
An alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations.
What is a glossary?
A comparison of two things by saying one thing is another thing
What is a metaphor?
Includes boldface, italic, larger text, colored text, CAPITAL LETTERS, headings, and punctuation.
What are text features?
It is the type of word obviously underlined in this sentence.
What is an adverb?
Where an adjectives goes in a sentence.
What is "before the noun it describes"
A list of chapters and their page numbers, found at the beginning of a book.
What is the Table of Contents?
A sound device used to repeat the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words
What is alliteration?
Visuals, such as illustrations, diagrams, maps, and speech bubbles that help explain ideas in the text
What are graphic features?
A word that modifies a noun to indicate whether the noun is specific or general.
The part of a sentence that shows action.
What is the predicate?
A collection of books or articles with facts and information about many different topics, like science, history, and animals, and explained i a way that is easy to understand.
What is an encyclopedia?