Figurative Language
A type of figurative language compares two things using the words "like" and "as."
What is a simile?
This text feature makes words look bigger and darker than the rest of the text.
What is bold type?
This graphic feature has realistic pictures.
What is a photograph?
This genre is also thought of as a story.
What is fiction?
This will tell the reader where the scene takes place.
What are setting details?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This text feature is slanted.
What is italics?
This part of a book tells the meaning of words.
What is a glossary?
This genre is informational?
What is non-fiction?
This includes characters talking.
What is dialogue?
This type of figurative language uses exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This text feature is at the beginning of a story or article.
What is a title?
This part of a book is at the beginning of a book and tells what you can find in the books.
What is an index?
This genre might rhyme.
What is poetry?
This explains what the characters are doing.
What are small actions?
This type of figurative language in which the word describes a sound of an object or action.
What is onomatopoeia?
This text feature explains what is happening in a picture.
What is a caption?
This text feature will tell you where to find something.
What is a map?
This genre is a story that might have happened long ago.
What is historical fiction?
This lets the readers know what the characters are thinking.
What are internal thoughts?
This figurative language has a different meaning than the literal meaning of a word or phrase. For example: He is as cool as a cucumber.
What is an idiom?
This text feature will tell you what part of an article is about.
What is a heading or subheading?
This graphic feature explains with pictures or drawings how something works.
What is a diagram?
This genre might be called a "who done it."
What is a mystery?
This helps the readers visualize the characters and what they are doing.
What is description?