Genres
A fairy tale.
What is a story called that has fairy godmothers, ogres, princesses and princes?
Symbols indicating the beginning and the ending of a character's spoken word.
What is quotation marks?
The part of the story that tells about the when and where.
What is the setting?
A comparison using the words as or like
What is a simile?
Words like courageous, clumsy, lively
What is an adjective?
A story that has a moral, usually with animals for characters.
What is a fable?
The part of the story referring to the big idea.
What is the theme?
A comparison where one thing is said to be another-not using as or like.
What is a metaphor?
A word which shows action, or connects to parts of a sentence.
What is a verb?
A type of story that has magic, people for characters, and stuff happening that couldn't happen in real life.
What is a fantasy?
A symbol that stands for one or more missing letters; used to combine two words.
What is an apostrophe?
The type of person that has to go through a number of bad experiences, but ends up getting to their goal.
What is a hero?
When nonhuman things are given human qualities.
What is personification?
Words like too, very, mightily, and sleepily.
What are adverbs?
A symbol used to indicate excitement or fear.
What is an exclamation mark?
The words that characters speak to each other.
What is dialogue?
An exaggeration used to create an effect.
What is hyperbole?
Words like below, above, at, before...
What are prepositions?
A symbol used to indicate that the idea is ended, but that there is more details that will be added before the sentence is complete.
What is a semi-colon?
When a writer paints a picture in the reader's mind with words.
What is imagery?
When a reader makes an educated guess about what the poet is speaking about.
What is to infer?
What do these words have in common?
sat, ate, ran, jumped
Past tense