Figurative Language
It says that two things are similar. Example: Life is LIKE a box of chocolates.
What is a simile?
The speaker in the text takes an unfair position. They are favoring one side (but often pretending like they are not).
What is BIAS?
This drives the plot line up. Examples: human versus human / human versus their own fear.
What is conflict?
To stress a point--repeated it, say it loudly, write in ALL CAPS.
An writer uses evidence to ____ __ _______ or prove that their opinion is valid.
What is support a claim?
Oxymoron
The emotional feeling of a text. (hint: Tuesdays are full of them).
What is a TONE?
The person telling the story--that might be a character in it or they might be an observer of it.
What is narrator?
What is a SYNONYM?
The result or outcome of a technique, word choice, figurative language etc.
What is EFFECT?
A clever play on words. Example: A pessimist's blood type is always b negative.
An unexplained reference to a famous person, artist, text, song--the author assumes you know what they are talking about it, so they don't explain it.
What is an ALLUSION?
The perspective through which a story is told. It could be first, third limited, or third omniscient.
What is point of view?
A word that means the opposite. For example, malevolent is the ______ of benevolent.
What is an ANTONYM?
In a grouping of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
An equation that says one thing equals a another. For example: love is a battlefield.
What is an author's purpose?
The main / central idea of the text. A lesson about life the author is trying to convey to the audience.
What is theme?
When an author gives a non-living things human qualities--like a talking candle--they are _____ the candle.
What is PERSONIFYING?
The details of a story without an opinion. What the story was basically about.
What is an OBJECTIVE SUMMARY?
A verbal expression that does not mean what it says. For example: You are GETTING ON MY NERVES!
What is an idiom?
This word means to speak or communicate. Example: The teacher should ___ the directions when introducing a new assignment.
What is CONVEY?
Hints that help the reader infer the meaning of new words. (in blue on the word of the week slide).
What are CONTEXT CLUES?
An opinion is what someone thinks. The opposite of an opinion is a _____.
What is a FACT?
The story jumps back in time.
What is a FLASHBACK?