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Figurative Language
Benchmarks
Along The Plot Diagram
Poetry and Drama
Language
100
"The road stretched before me LIKE A RIBBON OF MOONLIGHT."
What is a SIMILE?
100
Venn Diagrams, Time Lines, and Outlines
What are GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS ?
100
The highest point or turning point in a story
What is the CLIMAX?
100
In drama, these instructions tell characters what to do and how to say their lines.
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
100
The specific words used in a literary work, it can be either formal or informal.
What is DICTION?
200
"The MAN WAS A HUMAN TREE IN HEIGHT, towering high above Papa's six feet two inches."
What is a METAPHOR?
200
In the sentence, "Rashid smirked when he saw how poorly Jean did on the test, the word SMIRKED may have a negative one of these.
What is CONNOTATION?
200
The earliest part of the story. We learn about our characters and setting here.
What is EXPOSITION?
200
It is to a poem what a paragraph is to an essay.
What is a STANZA?
200
The overall "feeling" a reader gets from a text.
What is MOOD?
300
"I told her a MILLION TIMES that her crazy idea would never work."
What is HYPERBOLE?
300
to PERSUADE, INFORM, EXPLAIN, or ENTERTAIN
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?
300
We're headed for the end at this stage, but we're not quite there yet.
What is FALLING ACTION?
300
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. It's also a unit of measurement.
What is METER?
300
Words that appeal to taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell.
What are SENSORY WORDS?
400
"I wasn't trying to PULL THE WOOL OVER ANYONE'S EYES. I truly was sick."
What is an IDIOM?
400
Restating an author's words in your own words.
What is PARAPHRASING?
400
The end of the road - and our story.
What is RESOLUTION?
400
It's the term for characters speaking to each other in a dramatic performance.
What is DIALOGUE?
400
The writing technique seen here: "Well thish-yer Smiley had a yeller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only jest a short stump like a bannanner."
What is DIALECT?
500
"As a PROUD PAPA, PAUL was PRETTY PLEASED when his son made the baseball team."
What is ALLITERATION?
500
Judgments we make based on the author's clues and our own experiences.
What are INFERENCES?
500
This kind of literature includes autobiographies, biographies, informational texts, essays, and articles.
What is NONFICTION?
500
In a poem, it could be ABAB, AABB, or even ABCB.
What is a RHYME SCHEME?
500
A reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event.
What is ALLUSION?