Figurative Language
"The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
Vivid descriptions; descriptive language in a text.
What is imagery?
"break a leg"
What is good luck?
Define significant in a sentence: "The speech was significant to the audience."
What is important or meaningful?
A hyperbole is....
The difference between a simile and metaphor
What is like or as?
"Cost an arm and leg"
Make a logical guess based on evidence
What is infer?
"She was a volcano ready to erupt."
What is a metaphor?
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
"Once every blue moon"
What is rarely or sometimes?
Define elaborate as it is used in the sentence. " He would not elaborate on his news"
What is to explain more?
Define onomatopoeia.
What are sounds that are associated with a word?
Example: buzz, achoo, bam, wham!
The central message of a story
What is theme?
"Bite off more than you could chew"
What is too much to handle or take on?
Specific textual details, quotes, or observations from a text used to support a claim or argument about the text's meaning
What is evidence?
Fresh flowers flourished in the fields.
What is alliteration?
The literary device where a character remembers a past event during the story
What is flasback?
"Get cold feet"
What is to be nervous ?
The format in which poems are written
What is a stanza?