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MINI- LESSONS
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Homographs
Name that trait!
FIGURES OF SPEECH #2
100

Where the story takes place (the time, location, etc.) 

What is the setting.

100
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100

tool for television OR something that is left alone or isolated.

What is a remote?

100
The people, animals or objects a story centers around
What are the characters?
100
It was a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
200
Words that are opposites.
What are antonyms
200
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200

a gift OR the current time/today

What is a present?

200
The location of the story/play
What is the setting?
200
Bud walked over to the woodpile as cool as a cucumber.
What is a simile?
300

Words that show emotions and add "flare" to your writing. 

Interjections

300
Words in a phrase that do not mean exactly what the phrase says.
What is an idiom?
300

very small and tiny OR 60 seconds of time

What is a minute?

300
The voice that tells the story. Sometimes a character in the story
What is a narrator?
300
Miss Thomas's voice was the sun bursting through the clouds.
What is a metaphor?
400
The author of a play
What is the playwright?
400
Phrases of exaggeration.
What are hyperboles?
400

a character in the alphabet OR a mailed note

What is a letter?

400
A summary of the story or chain of events
What is the plot?
400
I've told you a million times to do your homework.
What is a hyperbole?
500

The moral/lesson of a story.

What is the theme?

500
Phrases that have nonhuman things taking on human characteristics.
What is personification?
500

the goal you are trying to achieve OR stating facts without your personal beliefs or feelings attached. 

What is objective?

500
Helps you understand the meaning of the word without a definition
What are context clues?
500
Bang! Crash! Boom!
What is Onomatopoeia?