Figurative Language
"The wind howled through the night" is an example of this device.
What is personification?
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
A shorter version of the text with only the most important information.
What is a summary?
The way a poem looks.
What is structure?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
"I’m so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
A sentence that joins two independent clauses with a FANBOYS (like "and" or "but") is this type.
What is a compound sentence?
The strategy we use to write a paragraph.
The way a poem sounds. Examples include: alliteration, consonance, assonance. etc.
What are sound devices?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
"Algebra is my kryptonite" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
This part of a sentence contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
This is the underlying message or "big idea" of a story, often expressed as a general truth about life.
What is the theme?
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
A word part that goes at the beginning of a root word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
"When I get home I am goin to sleep like a dog," is an example of this.
What is a simile?
What is a complex sentence?
What the text is mainly about, specific to the story.
What is the main idea?
"Pow!" "Whack!" "Slam!"
What is Onomatopoeia?
A word part that goes at the end of a root word and changes the meaning of the word.
What is a suffix?
The Shakespeare quote, "All the world is a stage," is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
Ms. Bolek, who always comes prepared for school, forgot her fugler in her car. What is the is this called?
What is an appositive?
Combining what we know with what the text says. This is an integral part of the "Explain" in ACECE.
What is an inference?
Having a positive or negative connotation, and also looking into the denotation of a word, can help us determine the ________ of a text.
What is tone?
Words around the vocabulary word that help you determine the meaning.
What are context clues?