Figurative Language
Identify the figurative language in the sentences:
One morning I heard bang it was a giant knocking on my bedroom window like a crazy man. It was so big it made me faint when I woke up I was in a giant trash bag.
Simile
The thing you do after reading a fictional text
The thing you do while you read informational text
gist
This comes after conflict in the narrative arc
Climax
What is being graded on the test
Annotations
Mrs. Kerns' favorite phrase is technically this type of figurative language
onomatopeia
This is the author's attitude toward the subject
Tone
The thing you do at the end of informational text
write an objective summary
The way you feel after reading something or the effect on you the reader
Mood
The type of question most students got wrong on the first unit test.
Question with 2 answers
When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Personification
this is the events of the story or poem
plot
background knowledge + evidence =
inference
what does it mean when you see the word best or most in an answer?
There is more than one right answer
The amount of time we have for the test
2 days
Life is a game that must be learned to be played.
And the price to play must be paid.
No one can cheat while playing the game.
No two people play the game the same.
You make your moves on life’s chess board.
You are sometimes trumped while others scored.
But isn’t that how we learn the rules?
Isn’t that what kids learn in school?
Although the game seems rather unfair,
in the end the winners are the ones who share
all of the spoils that are part of life’s game.
The losers? There are way too many to name.
Metaphor
these are examples of...
Human nature
Free will
Self-awareness
Coming of age
Hope
Jealousy
Justice
Fear
Freedom
Friendship
Bravery
theme
a strategy for figuring out the meaning of unknown words
word replacement
when the author hints at something before it happens
foreshadowing
looking at all the evidence to make a logical deduction
Conclusion
"But I would walk 500 miles/ And I would walk 500 more/ Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles/ to fall down at your door”
hyperbole
who is telling the story is
POV
the feeling you get from a word (positive, negative)
connotation
this POV has two types (name them)
3rd person limited
3rd person omniscent
This is the combined number of cats and children Mrs. Kerns has
3