Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The time and place a story occurs.
What is setting?
The emotional feeling a reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
she went to the store yesterday.
She went to the store yesterday.
An action word.
What is a verb?
Giving human qualities to objects or animals.
What is personification?
The main person in a story.
The author's attitude towards a subject or text.
What is tone?
i cant find my backpack anywhere
I can't find my backpack anywhere.
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The character that opposes the main character.
What is antagonist?
Using someone else's exact words and putting them in quotation marks.
What is a direct quote?
me and john went to the football game.
John and I went to the football game.
Shows location, time, or direction of a noun and verb.
What is a preposition?
A comparison without like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The main message or moral of a story.
What is theme?
A citation used in writing after a direct quote or paraphrasing that looks like this: (Author's last name #)
What is an in-text citation?
the students is excited bout spring break
The students are excited about spring break.
Modifies or describes verbs or adjectives.
What is an adverb?
When someone says the opposite of what they mean.
What is verbal irony?
Hints the author gives about what will happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
Using someone else's words or ideas without giving them credit.
What is plagiarism?
we finished our homework we went outside
We finished our homework, so we went outside.
We finished our homework. We went outside.