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Watched a movie. What's missing?
The lesson that we can apply to our own livesWhat is theme?
Theme
A comparison of two unalike things; often uses a "be" verb
Metaphor
The repetition of letters or sounds at the beginning of two or more words in a phrase or sentence
alliteration
A comparison of two unalike things; often uses "like" or "as."
Simile
What a character is like, what their goals are, appearance, what they feel/believe
Character Traits
A humorous exaggeration
Hyperbole
Tells a story or personal experience
Narrative Writing
the main events that take place in a story
Plot
Tells how the conflict was solved
Resolution
Time and place the story happens
Setting
What the story or passage is mostly about
main idea
Problem faced by the characters
Conflict
What is the noun in this sentence?
humor
What is the verb in this sentence? I can jump-rope pretty well.
can
three verb tenses
Giving a non-human object or item human qualities or actions
Personification
These back up the main idea
supporting details
The man in the front row. What's missing?
predicate
Words that are used to describe sounds
Onomatopoeia
a phrase that does not have the same meaning as what it says
idiom
What are the 5 steps of the writing process?
Prewrite, Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish
Name the prepositions in this sentence (3). After school, we are going across town to the ice cream shop.
after, across, to
Making a guess based off experience and evidence
inference
How many parts of speech are there? List them.
8: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, interjection