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Figurative Language
Plot
About the Author
Organization
Text Features
100
comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
the time and place
What is the setting?
100
the writer's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
100
when the writer analyzes the reasons for an action, event, or decision, or analyzes the consequences
What is cause & effect?
100
slanted letters used to emphasize a word or phrase
What is italics?
200
the truth is exagerated for emphasis or for humor
What is hyperbole?
200
the turning point, or moment of greatest tension
What is climax?
200
the reason the author wrote a particular work
What is author's purpose?
200
The writer groups ideas on the basis of order or time
What is chronological order?
200
helps the reader find information in a passage and may provide the main idea
What are headins and subheadings?
300
the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings
What is onomatopoeia?
300
the struggle between opposing forces that moves the plot forward
What is conflict?
300
a lesson taught in a literary work - for example, "Crime doesn't pay."
What is a moral?
300
When the main ideas are organized into two parts: a _____ and a _______, or a question and an answer to that question
What is problem and solution?
300
used to explain or give additional information about a picture
What is a caption?
400
when a nonhuman thing is written about as if it were human
What is personification?
400
the vantage point from which a writer tells a story
What is point of view?
400
the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
What is mood?
400
writing that examines the similiarities and differences between two or more subjects
What is compare and contrast?
400
organizes information into a small space and an easy-to-read format
What are charts and tables?
500
a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens
What is irony?
500
the portion of a story that brings the story to an end
What is resolution?
500
the writer's view of the world or human nature as revealed in a literary work
What is theme?
500
An interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time
What is a flashback?
500
Small section of text inserted into the passage to provide additional information that is supplemental or interesting
What is a sidebar?