Figurative Language
DAILY DOUBLE A direct comparison between two or more things.
What is metaphor?
The people or animals in a story
characters
Which organizational pattern tells how things are alike and how they are different?
compare and contrast
In what point of view is this sentence written? He fixed his car in two days.
What is third person.
Fact or Opinion? Athletes are role models and should conduct themselves accordingly in the public eye.
What is an opinion?
The students are so loud in the hallway that people can hear them 10 miles away.
What is hyperbole?
How many parts are in the plot diagram? Name them for TRIPLE POINTS
What is 5 ?
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone.
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
TRIPLE POINTS: Turn this statement into a fact. Hayfield Secondary School is the best school in the whole wide world.
Answers will vary
“His humility was a gentle river, flowing with quiet strength.”
What is a metaphor?
Triple Points When the opposite of what is expected happens (Gift of the Magi)
Irony
TRIPLE POINTS What is the point of highest tension in a story?
What is the climax?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3 specific types of conflict
Person vs person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs self, person vs supernatural, person vs technology
Fact or opinion? Dancing is a safe and healthy activity.
What is an opinion.
Daily Double Despite being over 90 years old, my grandmother’s mind is as sharp as a razor.
What is a simile?
DAILY DOUBLE We use our prior knowledge and evidence from the text to make...
Inferences
Chronological order
The feeling that the reader gets from the story.
What is mood?
Fact or opinion? Richmond is the state capital of Virginia.
What is fact?
The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.
What is personification?
Daily Double Explain the difference between limited and omniscient point of view.
3rd person limited shows the thoughts, feelings and actions of ONE character.
3rd person omniscient shows the thoughts, feelings and actions of ALL characters.
Explain the difference between internal and external conflicts.
internal- inside one's self
external- with someone/something else
Give an example of alliteration
answers will vary- repeated beginning sound
Students attend school for 250 days a year.
What is fact?