Main Idea & Theme
What the text is mostly about.
What is main idea/ central idea?
The narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
What is point of view?
Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The punctuation mark used to end a statement that conveys strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point.
Writing that presents a claim or argument supported by evidence and reasoning
What is an argumentative essay.
The lesson, moral or universal truth explored by the text.
What is theme?
When the narrator is a character in the story.
What is first person point of view?
What figurative language is used here?
The waves beside them danced.
What is personification?
The punctuation mark that can be used before a list of things. :
What is a colin?
Writing that tells a story. Has character development, setting, and plot.
What is a narrative?
The subject being written about.
What is topic?
The narrator is not part of the story but is recounting or telling the story as an observer.
What is third person point of view?
When the consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated.
What is alliteration?
A part of speech that names a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
What is context clues?
To tell what happened in a story using your own words.
What is summarize?
An uncommon point of view in which the author uses the pronouns you and your.
What is second person point of view?
What literary device is this:
Please - don't go that way!
Dash, dramatic pause
Twenty eggs (were/was) in the basket.
What is "were."
Words that express ideas in unusual or creative ways.
What is figurative language?
Using the details you read and what you already know to make a conclusion.
What is making an inference?
What point of view is this example:
The wind howled and screeched like a banshee threw the trees signaling that a storm was approaching, but that would not stop her from continuing the search for her lost sibling.
What is third person point of view?
A type of figurative language in which two things are compared by stating one thing actually is something else.
What is a metaphor?
A part of speech that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
What is the author's point of view