Figurative Language
The tree waved in the wind as the boy walked by.
What is personification
The main events that make up a story.
What is plot?
What a passage or paragraph is about.
What is main idea?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening in the text.
What is an inference?
A humorous play on words
Pun
I'm like a slow sloth.
What is a simile?
The most exciting or intense part of a story.
What is climax?
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What are context clues?
A comparison between two things: _______is to_______as_________is to___________
What is an analogy?
Two descriptive words with opposite meanings
Oxymoron
He is skinnier than a toothpick.
What is hyperbole?
The message of a story.
What is theme?
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
Visually descriptive language.
What is imagery?
Short story with talking animals that teach a lesson
Fable
What is an idiom
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
Fictional story that has occurs in an unfamiliar location.
What is Fantasy
Literature that is true.
What is nonfiction?
An imaginary place where government is control and individual rights are eliminated.
Dystopia
You are my sunshine.
What is metaphor?
When the narrator is not in the story and uses words such as: he, she, they.
What is third person point of view?
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
A sign or warning of whats going to happen next in a story.
What is foreshadowing?