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Examples of Figurative Language
Definitions of Plot Devices
Definitions of Text Structures
Definitions of Clauses and Phrases
(What these things are)
MISC.
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Simile

As busy as a bee.

100

Exposition

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

100

Description

a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.

100

Phrase

a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

100

A.  C.  E. Method

designed to help writers organize their writing and support their thinking to form constructed responses for informative/explanatory compositions.

200

Hyperbole

When she did the flips at the dance, she landed as light as a feather.

200

Rising Action

the section of a story that leads toward its climax.

200

Cause and Effect

one or more things happen as a result of something else.

200

Clause

a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.

200

Different POVs

1st person POV uses the pronouns “I” and “we.” 2nd person POV uses the pronoun “you.” 3rd person POV uses the pronouns “she,” “he,” “they,” and “it.”

300

Personification

The moon smiled down on the earth.

300

Climax

the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.

300

Compare and Contrast

comparing is showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.

300

Simple Sentence

a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.
300

Conflict

a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

400

Onomatopoeia

The bee buzzed in my ear.

400

Falling Action

the stage in which the conflict is in the process of becoming resolved and tension decreases.

400

Chronology/Sequence

a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.

400

Compound Sentence

a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
400

Modifier

a person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something.

500

Metaphor

Time is a thief.

500

Conclusion

the end or finish of an event or process.

500

Problem and Solution

a format of writing that involves setting up the structure of written text to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.

500

Complex Sentence

a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
500

Main idea

the central point or topic that a text or a paragraph conveys.