Figurative Language Defintions
Makes a comparison between 2 unlike objects using the words "like" or "as".
What is a SIMILE?
He ran like the wind.
What is a SIMILE?
Stories that are untrue.
What is FICTION?
A reading that has been proven true.
What is NONFICTION?
When the dictionary definition is given within the reading.
What is DENOTATION?
Makes a comparison without using "like" or "as" (like you are name calling)
What is a METAPHOR?
The leaves danced wildly in the wind.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
The main character of a story.
What is PROTAGONIST?
The who, what, when or where of a informational reading.
What is TOPIC?
When a reader needs to use context, inferencing and tone to understand the meaning of an unknown word.
What is CONNOTATION?
Is stated as an exaggeration and not expected to be completely true. (Done for affect.)
What is a HYPERBOLE?
This winter the snow was a white blanket.
What is a METAPHOR?
The summary of the story.
What is PLOT?
statistics, expert opinion, facts, used to support in an informational reading.
What is REASON?
That attitude a reader "picks up on" as they read through the author's words.
What is TONE?
Giving a nonhuman (an animal or object) a human characteristic.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
I walked a million miles to get here today!
What is a HYPERBOLE?
The reason an author writes a story (to persuade, to inform, to entertain).
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?
What is MAIN IDEA?
She was feeling blue as she watched her best friend pack her things and move away.
Blue - sadness
What is an example of CONNOTATION?
Using the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch taste) to help describe when writing
What is IMAGERY?
The sound of the siren turned into a whisper as it ended.
What is IMAGERY? (or personification)
The perspective from which a story is told.
1st person a character tells the story
2nd person the reader is part of the story
3rd person a narrator tells the story
What is POINT OF VIEW?
When you must include, quotation marks, text that is word for word, the readings title, the author and the page or paragraph number.
What is CITING MATERIAL?
The dog was a mutt, a dog with more than one type of pedegree, but his family loved him anyway.
Mutt - a dog with more than one type of pedegree
What is an example of DENOTATION?