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Figurative Language
100
The literary genre based on real people or events from the past
What is Historical Fiction the literary genre based on real people or events from the past?
100
the literary element that is the message of the text which the author relays to the reader? A good way to find this is to look at how the main character has changed.
What is theme?
100
the type of character who changes over time within a story
What is Protagonist
100
strategy used by using context clues to create the meaning of an unknown word
What is Clarify?
100
the term of the emotional weight a word carries
What is Connotation?
200
the literary genre with make believe worlds, witchcraft and wizards
What is Fantasy Fiction the literary genre with make believe worlds, witchcraft and wizards?
200
the literary element that describes a feeling the reader experiences based upon the events of a story
What is Mood?
200
the type of character that changes in personality throughout the plot of the story
What is Dynamic?
200
strategy includes the following...book to book, book to self and book to world
What is Connecting?
200
the type of figurative language that is when two or more words begin with the same consonant letter
What is Alliteration?
300
the literary genre that involves technology of the future
What is Science Fiction?
300
the main action of the story where there is usually a conflict
What is Plot?
300
the type of character that changes only slightly or not at all throughout the plot
What is Static?
300
strategy is used when the reader identifies the most important information of the text
What is Summarizing?
300
the figurative language that cannot be taken literally
What is an Idiom?
400
Encyclopedia of Cats is an example of this genre
What is Reference Book?
400
the term used to describe how an author develops their main character throughout the plot through various changes over time
What is Characterization? the term used to describe how an author develops their main character throughout the plot through various changes over time?
400
point of view is when the author tells the story using the pronoun "you"
What is 2nd person point of view?
400
the term that means to identify the most important or central thought of a paragraph or text, which tells the reader what the text is about
What is Main Idea? the term that means to identify the most important or central thought of a paragraph or text, which tells the reader what the text is about?
400
the figurative language that is when an author gives a human characteristic to an inanimate object
What is Personification?
500
magazines and newspapers are an example of this genre
What is Periodicals? literary genre do magazines and newspapers belong?
500
the key term used to describe a strategy used by authors to signal a future event in the story
What is Foreshadowing? the key term used to describe a strategy used by authors to signal a future event in the story?
500
most protagonist in a story are...
What is Dynamic?
500
the strategy that allows the reader to figure out what the author might me saying but isn't being stated directly. Its when the reader reads between the lines
What is Infer?
500
She is a bear in the morning is an example of what type of figurative language>
What is a metaphor? She is a bear in the morning is and example of what type of figurative language?