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Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
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Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor
100
Figure of speech where nonhuman objects are given human characteristics.
What is personify or personification
100
A problem in a story.
What is conflict
100
Figure of speech that compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile
100
Major topic of a passage; central thought
What is the main idea
200
An idea large enought to cover the whole idea of the passage
What is a theme
200
Giving the important ideas in a text.
What is a summary
200
Giving the beginning, middle, and end ideas of a passage
What is summarizing
200
The reason to do something.
What is purpose
200
To solve something
What is resolution
300
Something that is the same.
What is similarity
300
Something that is different
What is difference
300
emphasizing the similarities or differences between.
What is compare
300
To add to or enhance.
What is contribute
300
text by a picture/map/chart that gives information.
What is captions
400
belief or attitude about something.
What is opinion
400
The reason an author writes, such as to entertain, inform, or persuade.
What is author's purpose
400
The author's attitude reflected (shown) in their writing.
What is author's tone
400
When one is reasoning, they are...
What is thinking
400
Taking what is known and using it to make an inference about the text.
What is generalize or generalization
500
Understand stand something not directly stated making a judgement using indirect evidence for see what might happen.
What is assumption, infer, inference, and/or predict
500
giving an opinion
What is conclusion
500
decide, determine
What is influence
500
Use the literary term reasoning in an example MSP reading question.
Example: What is wrong with Mike's reasoning in the story?
500
Provide an example question for author's purpose
Example: What is the poet's purpose for writing the poem? Provide one detail from the poem to support your answer.