figurative language and sound devices
comparing two things using like or as
simile
When and where the story takes place
Setting
What the passage or paragraph is mostly about
Central Idea
A person, place, thing, or idea
noun
The struggle in a story
conflict
giving something nonhuman human characteristics
personification
The most intense or exciting high point in a story.
The reason an author writes a text
Author's purpose
Action words
verbs
visually descriptive language
Imagery
repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
alliteration
The main events of a story
Plot
Context clues
Beautiful and red are examples of these.
Adjectives
Hair and eye color are examples of this
external characteristics
Label the rhyme scheme
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
“Day after day, day after day, A
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; B
As idle as a painted ship C
Upon a painted ocean.” B
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of view
The attitude/feelings of the narrator or author
Tone
Quickly and slowly are what part of speech?
Adverbs
When you jump back in time during a story
Flashback
When someone says the opposite of what they actually mean.
irony or verbal irony
The part of the story where you are introduced to the characters, setting, and conflict.
Exposition
Diction
Label the parts of speech for the following words in this sentence:
The brown-haired man walked quickly down the street.
Brown-haired:
Walked:
Quickly:
Street:
Brown-haired: adjective
Walked: verb
Quickly: adverb
Street: noun
You need to use prior knowledge and information from the text to make one of these
inference