Word Wall
Figurative Language
Literary Devices
Point of View
Guiding Terms
100

To go beyond.

What is transcends?

100

To say exactly what you mean.

What is literal?

100

The main topic of the text.

What is central idea?

100

Another word for point of view.

What is perspective?

100

Hints that the author gives to help the reader understand unknown or difficult vocabulary

What is context clues?

200

To be limited or held back, such as by chains.

What is constraints?

200

A comparison

What is a metaphor?
200

The message or lesson of a text.

What is theme?

200

Autobiographies are written in this perspective.

What genre is written in first person?

200

When a text is organized by different conflicts and then ways in which to fix those conflicts.

What is Problem and Solution?

300

A thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.

What is transformation?

300

"The sad sea-captain sank the ship"

What is an example of alliteration.

300

A problem that is between a person and an outside source.

What is external conflict?

300

Meaning to only provide facts and details.

What is objective?

300

Information from the text to help support an answer.

What is textual evidence?

400

To be clever in a secretive way.

What is cunning, or cunningly?

400

"If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times"

What is an example of hyperbole?

400

The events in a story.

What is plot?

400

When the narrator concentrates on the thoughts and feelings of only one character, but is not first person.

What is third person limited?

400

Examples: metaphor, symbol, hyperbole, alliteration, allusion, personification

What is figurative language?

500

A natural ability or skill.

What is aptitude?

500

A reference to something outside the text.

What is an allusion?

500

The person telling the story?

Who is the narrator?

500

For example, TV shows that display the thoughts and behavior of multiple characters.

What is third person omniscient?

500
The way in which information is organized in a text.

What is text structure?