Figurative Language
Essays
Vocabulary
Poetic Language
Breaking down the Prompt
100

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

Simile uses "like" or "as" and a metaphor does not!

100

How many sentences create a paragraph?

5 SENTENCES

100

What the text is mainly about is called....(8th grade language ONLY)

The central idea
100

When identifying the text structure of a poem, the marking of the alphabet at the end of a line notes the...

rhyme scheme

100

When breaking down the prompt, what do you do?

Circle the type of essay

Put a box around what they are asking for

Underline the topic

200

Has a literal and non-literal meaning

Idiom

200

What does PEEEEL stand for

Point, Evidence, Elaboration, Evidence, Elaboration, Link

200

The message or moral of the story

Theme

200

The "baby paragraphs" in a poem are called...

Stanzas

200

Break down the following prompt:

Write an essay to describe the impact student loan debt has on college graduates.

Circle "describe"

Box "the impact"

Underline "student loan debt has on college graduates"

300

Jumbo Shrimp is an example of...

An oxymoron

300

What is synthesis?

Supporting ONE point with TWO pieces of evidence from TWO different sources.

300

Problem/Solution, Compare/Contrast and Sequence are all examples of...

Text Structure

300

The emotional weight a word carries is called the...

connotative/connotation

300

Break down the prompt:

Write an essay to argue if students should have to wear school uniforms. 

Circle "argue"

Box "if"

Underline "students should have to wear school uniforms"

400

"You've got a smile that could light up this whole town" is an example of...

Hyperbole

400

This statement addresses the other side in an argumentative essay.

The counterclaim

400

3rd person omniscent is what type of narrator?

God-like; knows everything within a story

400

How is imagery used in the following stanza?

"One sniff gives a clue of the heat within.

First bite feels like swallowing a lighted blow torch,

And tears stream from his eyes like a flash flood

As the dying ghost pepper delivers its savage revenge."

Uses the senses (smell, taste, feel)

400

How many body paragraphs should be included in an essay based on the following prompt?

Write an essay to describe the effects WW1 had on European countries.

2

500

Identify the THREE examples of figurative language:

"The moon was playing hide and seek in the clouds while the children danced freely to music only they could hear. Crickets chirped sorrowful melodies of hope in the tall grass. And when the sun rose, it swallowed the darkness whole."

Personification

Oxymoron

Personification

500

What two questions should your elaboration answer?

What does is mean?

Why is it important?

500

__________ belongs to the reader

while ______________ belongs to the writer.

Mood belongs to the reader

while Tone belongs to the writer.

500

In a poem, they are called stanzas but in a song they are called....

Verses

500

Break down the following prompt:

Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I have a Dream" speech in August of 1963. Write to determine whether or not we have met the goals he outlined in the speech.

Circle "determine"

Box "whether or not"

Underline "we have met the goals he outlined in the speech"