Figurative Language
What is a simile?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Exposition
a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Description
a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.
Phrase
a group of words forming a part of a sentence
A.C.E Method
designed to help students organize their writing and support their thinking to form constructed responses for informative/explanatory compositions.
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Rising Action
the section of a story that leads toward its climax.
Cause and Effect
one or more things happen as a result of something else.
Clause
a group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and forms a sentence or part of a sentence.
Different POVs
omniscient, limited, and objective.
Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Climax
he highest point : culmination. the climax of a distinguished career.
Compare and Contrast
comparing is showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.
Simple Sentence
Conflict
a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Falling Action
the period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution
Chronology/Sequence
a following of one thing after another in time.
Compound Sentence
a sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction.
Modifier
a person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something.
Metaphor
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Conclusion
he end or finish of an event or process.
Problem and Solution
a format of writing that where the structure of written text is laid out to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.
Complex Sentence
Main Idea
is a sentence that provides the subject for discussion; it is the topic sentence