Figurative Language
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The type of sentence this is and its two verbs:
It was late, but I decided to read a few more pages of my book.
What is a compound sentence. What are was and decided?
A universal message that can be applied to everyday life.
What is theme?
An account of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
Often word meanings can be figured out by studying their parts. What are these meaningful parts?
What are prefixes, suffixes, and roots?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
This sentence correctly uses the _______ voice?
"Johnny plays violin in the school orchestra."
What is the active voice?
The character type who opposes the hero or creates the conflict.
What is the villain or the antagonist?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
The emotions the reader feels while reading.
What is mood?
'The traffic crawled along the congested highway', is an example of?
What is personification?
A sentence written in the ________ voice begins with the object before the verb.
What is passive?
The author's attitude.
What is tone?
To disprove or weaken the opposing argument.
What is a rebuttal?
The three types of punctuation that can be used to indicate a pause or break.
What is a comma, ellipsis and dash?
Placing two opposite words together.
What is an oxymoron?
The verb mood used in this sentence:
"Clean your room!"What is imperative mood?
When an author makes reference to a well-known person, event or thing.
What is an allusion?
Two things that are necessary to make an inference.
What is background knowledge and text evidence?
The idea or feeling associated with a word
What is connotative meaning or connotation?
The figurative language used in this sentence: 'She was a fish out of water!' (two answers will work)
What is either an idiom or a metaphor?
The five types of verb moods.
What is indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive, and conditional?
The beginning of a story when the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?
Descriptive, chronological or sequence, compare/contrast, problem/solution, and cause/effect
Something unexpected happens; it could be verbal, situational, or dramatic
What is irony?