Is an exaggeration to make a point: I have a pile of homework a mile high.
What is hyperbole?
100
She sings like an angel.
What is a simile?
100
A _______ of a story is the message or lesson that the story is trying to express.
What is theme?
100
When you use the ________, you study the words around an unknown word.
What is context.
100
With a little caution and common sense, people and venomous animals can coexist without harming each other.
What does coexist mean?
What is live together?
200
Gives animals or objects human qualities: The summer heat wrapped its arms around us.
What is personification?
200
The world is a stage.
What is a metaphor?
200
When you _________ you restate what a writer said in your own words.
What is paraphrase?
200
Find the cause and the effect...
If it rains again today, the ground will be too saturated to dig our garden tomorrow.
The rain is a cause, and saturated ground is its effect.
200
There are many nonpoisonous snakes that look much like the coral snake.
What does nonpoisonous mean?
What is the root word?
What is the prefix?
What is not having poison?
What is poison?
What is non?
300
Comparing two things by using the words like or as: The summer heat is like a big, thick blanket.
What is a simile?
300
Each dress seemed to shudder with excitement!
What is personification?
300
When you ______ ___ _________, you make a judgment about something.
What is draw a conclusion?
300
The ____________ of a story is when and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
Texas is home to many kinds of spiders, but two kinds are more worrisome to humans than the others; the black widow and the brown recluse.
What does the word worrisome mean?
What is cause for concern?
400
Compares two things but by stating that one thing is another: Tom's eyes were ice.
What is a metaphor?
400
It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets!
What is a hyperbole?
400
___________ is what the characters say to each other.
What is dialogue?
400
The __________ is what happens in a story.
What is plot?
400
Still, it's best not to pick up snakes without the supervision of an expert.
What does supervision mean?
What is the act of watching over something?
500
Tools writers use to create effects in a text.
What is a literary device?
500
An __________ is a conclusion based on clues, or evidence, and what you already know.
What is inference?
500
The _______ ___ _______ lets readers know who is telling the story.
What is point of view?
500
Even though the "high-end" modern cars appeal to him, his heart is really with the classic cars.
What does the word classic mean?