Figurative Language
What is a metaphor?
The main idea supported by details in a text.
What is central idea?
Words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
Writing that tells a story.
What is narrative writing?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
"The wind whispered through the trees"
What is personification?
Explains why something happened and the resulting outcomes.
What is cause and effect?
The meaning of a word based on surrounding text.
What are context clues?
Writing that explains or informs.
What is informative/explanatory writing?
This is used to indicate ownership or possession, or to replace missing letters in a contraction.
What is a comma?
The author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
Conclusions drawn from clues in the text plus prior knowledge.
What is inference?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
Writing that argues a point using evidence.
What is argumentative writing?
This punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses without a conjunction, or in a compound sentence before a transition work like "however".
What is a semicolon?
"As cold as ice"
What is a simile?
The author's purpose to convince the reader.
What is pursuasion?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
A statement that presents the main argument of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
Identify the adverb in this sentence: "Dan slowly walked across the long bridge."
What is "slowly"?
Combines two contradictory terms together ("Bitter-sweet" or "Deafening silence")
What is an oxymoron?
What is assessing credibility?
The emotional feeling a word carries beyond its definition.
What is connotation?
What is supporting evidence?
An error where two sentences are joined incorrectly without punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?