MINI- LESSONS
Words that sound alike
What are homophones?
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
tool for television or isolated
What is a remote?
The people, animals or objects a story centers around
What are the characters?
Bud walked over to the woodpile as cool as a cucumber.
What is a simile?
Words that are opposites.
What are antonyms?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
a gift or today
What is a present?
The location of the story/play
What is the setting?
Miss Thomas's voice was the sun bursting through the clouds.
What is a metaphor?
Words that look the same, but they have different meanings and different pronunciations (sometimes)
What are homographs?
A series of words in a sentence have the same first consonant sound
What is alliteration?
To rip or a drop of water from the eye
What is tear?
The voice that tells the story. Sometimes a character in the story
What is a narrator?
I've told you a million times to do your homework.
What is a hyperbole?
A story of someone's life written by that individual
What is an autobiography?
Phrases of exaggeration.
What are hyperboles?
in the alphabet or a mailed note
What is a letter?
A summary of the story or chain of events
What is the plot?
Bang! Crash! Pow!
What is an onomatopoeia?
The moral/lesson of a story.
What is the theme?
Phrases that have nonhuman things taking on human characteristics.
What is personification?
Movement or the air or to turn something
What is wind?
Name the 5 parts of the plot chart.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
In the middle of an intense thunderstorm: "We're having a little rain."
What is an Understatement?