Authors purpose
What do most commercials do
To persuade
The hot lamp is like the sun
Simile
The turning point of the story
Climax
A poem that makes up a shape
Concrete
When you don’t tie your shoes, you then fall on your face
Cause and effect
A show about cops and robbers
Entertain
The lighting danced across the sky
Personification
The occurrence after the climax
Falling action
Verse of three lines and two short lines of rhyming
Limerick
Looking at two or more items to establish similarities/differences
Compare and contrast
How to build a mansion
To inform
You are what you eat
Metaphor
The settlement to the story that reveals the solution
Resolution
Is a very short form of Japanese poetry and is typically characterized by three qualities
Haiku
Gives information in order of events
Chronological order
The pig made a big explosion in the sky while flying to the barn on the farm
Onomatopoeia
The beginning of a story that helps you find specific details about characters and settings
Exposition
Is a form of poetry that has only five lines in it.
Cinquain
What is sequence
A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other
I had so many chores to do that when I got home they ripped me apart
Hyberbole
The events in the story that develops problems with a series of events that happen between characters or something in the story
Rising action
A form of poetry that is a style that is made up of seven lines
Diamante
The most important or central thought of a paragraph or a larger section of text
Main idea