Figurative Language
Compares two different things, using the words “like” or “as” to draw
What is a Simile?
Creates a vivid, multi-sensory picture in the reader’s mind to describe the text
What is a descriptive text?
Reason for writing
What is Author's Purpose?
An incomplete sentence, usually missing the subject or predicate...
What is a fragment sentence?
What the story is mostly about
What is main/central idea?
Compares two different things, similar to a simile, but does not use "like or as".
What is a metaphor?
Tells why something happened and what happened
What is cause and effect?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is author's POINT of VIEW?
This type of sentence usually has a coordinating conjunction like "and"
What is a compound sentence?
The time and location the story takes place
What is setting?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.
What is personification?
Examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, and ideas.
What is compare and Contrast?
Author's reasons for writing are as easy as...
What is PIE - Persuade, Inform, Entertain?
Includes one (1) independent clause or complete sentence and one (1) dependent clause
What is a complex sentence?
The order of events that takes place in a story
What is the PLOT?
A great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment
What is an hyperbole?
Describes items or events in order, or explains the steps to follow.
The main idea or theme the author wants to deliver
What is Author's message?
"You are a very good student" is what type of sentence?
What is a complete sentence?
The lesson or message the author wants you to learn
What is theme?
My mother is as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
Conflict and resolution
What is problem and solution?
Wrote the text...
Who is the author?
These are the 4 different types of sentences
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex?
The narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by pronouns he, she, or they. "She walked into the room with her head held high."
What is 3rd person POV?