Figurative Language
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
The punctuation you use to show that the words are not your own, that they are from the text.
What are quotation marks?
Return to the text. Eliminate wrong choices and pick the strongest option.
If it's a Part A and Part B question, the answer for Part B will be the evidence for Part A.
What are multiple choice strategies?
the perspective of who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification?
What you should include in your textual citation, so people know where you got your evidence.
What is a page or paragraph number?
Two people speaking back and forth in a story
What is dialogue?
This is the lesson or moral of the story; it is universally true.
What is theme?
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two things without using the words LIKE or AS.
What is a metaphor?
An easy way to create one of these is to restate the prompt as a statement and then answer it!
What is a topic statement or thesis statement?
The narrator's inner thoughts, or being inside the narrator's head.
What is inner monologue?
The problem a character is facing
What is conflict?
This type of figurative language is an intentional (and extreme) exaggeration.
What are Topic Statement, Evidence, Elaboration, and Concluding Statement?
The type of writing that tells a story.
What is narrative writing?
This is the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
A quote that backs up your topic statement or thesis statement.
What is textual evidence?
What the text is mostly about
What is main idea?
The story takes place in North Carolina in the 1980's. This description is an example of...
What is the setting?