Figurative Language
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
What are characters?
Words that have similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
The spanish word for butterfly.
What is mariposa?
There are this many days in a leap year.
What is 366?
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The main problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
Words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
The reason an author writes a piece of text.
What is author's purpose?
The term for animal species that live both on land and in water.
What is amphibians?
Adding human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
When a narrator uses "I" and "Me," it is written in this perspective.
What is first person point of view?
The words and phrases around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning. Gives us hints and helps us to better understand.
What are context clues?
The part of the essay that acknowledges the opposite opinion and attempts to disprove it.
What is a counterclaim?
This person invented the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
An overexaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
The most interesting part of the story or highest point of tension is referred to as.
What is the climax?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
The author of Omnivore's Dilemma.
Who is Michael Pollan?
The first date of the 20th century.
What is January 1st 1901?
A type of figurative language that places opposite words or phrases together to create contrast.
What is an oxymoron?
When a narrator uses the words "you, yourself, your," the story is written in this point of view.
What is second person point of view?
A reference to something with historical, cultural, literary, or political importance.
What is an allusion?
The name of all five Garcia sisters.
What is Odilia, Juanita, Velia, Delia, and Pita?
This many U.S. states have coastline.
What is 23 states?