Figurative Foundations
An author describes a busy street as a "beehive of activity." This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a metaphor?
This text structure is most likely used in a biography that starts with a person’s birth and ends with their death.
What is Chronological (or Sequential)?
This is the perspective of a story told by a narrator who is not a character and only knows the thoughts of one character.
What is Third-Person Limited?
To find the theme of a story, a reader should look at how the main character changes or what they learn by this part of the plot.
What is the Resolution?
When an ACAP question asks you to "infer," you are looking for a meaning that is not _______ ______ in the text.
What is explicitly stated?
If a character says they are "feeling under the weather," they are using an idiom. What does this mean in plain language?
What is feeling sick or unwell?
A text that explains the similarities and differences between the red-tailed hawk and the peregrine falcon uses this structure.
What is Compare and Contrast?
When comparing a biography and an autobiography of George Washington Carver, which one is a firsthand account?
What is the autobiography?
This is a brief statement of the main points of a story, excluding minor details and personal opinions.
What is a summary?
This is the best way to start a sentence when you are providing text evidence (e.g., "According to the text...").
What is a transition word or phrase?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
What is a simile uses "like" or "as" to compare, while a metaphor states one thing is another?
In informational text, a sidebar or text box provides this kind of information to the reader.
What is extra or related information not found in the main text?
How does a narrator’s point of view influence how events are described in a story?
What is by shaping the reader's understanding based on the narrator's feelings or knowledge?
When two characters have a disagreement that drives the story forward, it is known as this.
What is the conflict?
Why is it important to use multiple sources when researching a topic?
What is to get a complete or more accurate picture of the topic?
"The thunder grumbled like an old man losing an argument." This sentence combines these two types of figurative language.
What are personification and simile?
If a paragraph begins with "Due to the heavy rainfall..." and ends with "...the river overflowed," it is using this text structure.
What is Cause and Effect?
If you read two different news articles about a new park in Birmingham, and one focuses on the cost while the other focuses on the playground, you are seeing a difference in this.
What is emphasis (or focus/perspective)?
In a play (drama), the story is told mostly through this, rather than through a narrator’s description.
What is dialogue?
If a poem says "The golden sun set behind the jagged mountains," what are the two sensory details being used?
What are the two sight details (golden and jagged)?
In the phrase "The stars were diamonds in the velvet sky," the author uses a metaphor to create this specific effect for the reader.
What is imagery (or a visual picture of brightness against darkness)?
When an author uses a Problem and Solution structure, they must first identify a conflict and then do this.
What is explain a way to fix it?
Why might a firsthand account of a storm be more emotional than a secondhand account in a textbook?
Because the person experienced the event personally (subjective vs. objective).
How does a character’s motivation (why they do something) affect the plot of a story?
What is it causes the character to take actions that lead to the next event?
What does it mean to quote explicitly from a text?
What is to use the exact words from the text inside quotation marks?