Figurative Language
Extreme exaggeration
The way a poem is organized
What are lines and stanzas?
Introduces background to the reader. For example, a character's backstory or a setting's description.
What is an exposition?
Which word in the sentence is the pronoun?
Mrs. Simpson was so excited to see her students' results on the EOG.
What is her?
What is plot?
Crack, Pop, Thump, and Boom are all examples of what type of figurative language?
What is onomatopoeia?
Language that appeals to the senses. Often creates a mental picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
When the author says the same thing multiple times to put an emphasis on a topic, subject, or point they are trying to make.
What is repetition?
What is conflict?
What is the message or moral of a story?
What is theme?
What is this an example of:
The wind gently kissed her neck.
What is personification?
What is the speaker?
When an author hints or makes a reference to a book, movie, song, historical event or historical figure and expects that the reader will understand what they're referencing.
What is an allusion?
How many nouns are in this sentence:
Ashlee and Will drove past the store and quickly parked by Chipotle.
What is 4?
The author's attitude toward the subject which he/she is writing about.
What is tone?
Jumbo shrimp and a small crowd are examples of what type of figurative language?
What is an oxymoron?
When a word has the same ending sound as another word.
What is rhyming?
A story within a story, a short account of an interesting or amusing incident often intended to illustrate or support a point.
What are the two parts that every sentence must have in order to be a complete sentence?
What is a subject and a predicate (or a subject/noun and a verb)?
When an author hints at things that will happen later on in the story
What is foreshadowing?
The following is an example of what type of figurative language:
You're barking up the wrong tree!
What is an idiom?
What are concrete poems?
The act of placing two elements, characters, settings, ideas, words or things side by side, or close together, to allow for comparison and/or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
Data collected about past events or circumstances pertaining to a particular subject.
What are historical details?
The reason the author wrote the piece: to persuade, to inform, to entertain
What is author's purpose?