Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This vocabulary word means "an expression of grief or sorrow."
What is "lament"?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
These are the people in a story.
What are characters?
This is the “big picture” or most important idea in a text that ties all of the information together.
What is the main idea?
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
This vocabulary word means "an emotional request."
What is "plea"?
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
The order of events that form a story.
What is plot?
The situation and surroundings or setting.
What is context?
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying that one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This vocabulary word means "thought deeply" or "wondered."
What is "mused"?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This is the words characters say in a story.
What is dialogue?
The author’s attitude toward a subject, a character or person, or an audience.
What is tone?
This type of figurative language describes something in an exaggerated way.
This vocabulary word means, "a state of agitation or confusion."
What is 'turbulence'?
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses and one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
What are traits?
This is what the dictionary says a word means.
What is denotation?
What is an idiom?
This vocabulary word means "lively or excited."
What is 'exhilarated'?
This part of a sentence is the person or thing that receives the action of the verb.
What is the object of a sentence?
A lengthy narrative poem typically about the heroic deeds and adventures of a character.
What is an epic poem?
A feeling or idea someone gets from a word.
What is connotation?