Figurative Language
This type of figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare.
What is a Simile?
This is in the exposition of the plot diagram?
What is the setting?
This literary device is used to determine the summary of non-fiction text.
(Hint: It uses 7-14 words in total.)
What is a blurb?
"Otis always smells good. Because of the odor eaters beneath his armpits."
What is: "Otis always smells good, because of the odor eaters beneath his armpits."
The "C" in the R.A.C.E. response stands for this. It is also one of the most important steps in the RACE response.
What is cite evidence?
This type of figurative language has repetitive constant sounds throughout the sentence.
What is an Alliteration?
What is the climax?
This literary device is used to further investigate poems.
It includes, preview, occasion, emotion, theme, and speaker.
What is POETS?
Fix the following sentence.
"My English teacher who is a genius. She has a brain the size of a cantaloupe."
What is: "My English teacher is a genius; she has a brain the size of a cantaloupe."
The "E" in the RACE response is responsible for providing this.
What is an explanation of evidence?
Ty hit the books since he had a test tomorrow in English!
The metaphor in the sentence means what?
What is to study?
In the plot diagram you have _________vs.___________.
This literary device is used for making an educated guess also known as connecting the dots.
What is an inference?
Fix the following sentence:
"I always tune him out because all they talks about is how some president, maybe Eisenhower, won the civil war and held the country together."
(Hint: there are 2 mistakes)
What is: "I always tune him out because all he talks about is how some President, maybe Eisenhower, won the civil war and the country together."
The "R" and the "A" almost always go together, they represent this.
What is restate the question and answer the question?
Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.
What is the figurative language used in this sentence, and what does it mean/represent?
What is an oxymoron, and it represents tension in the room where no one is comfortable speaking.
This is the last portion/step of the plot diagram.
What is the resolution?
This literary device is used to determine the summary of a FICTION text.
(Hint: 3 letters)
What is CPR?
Fix the errors in the following sentence:
"Buzzy was struck by lightening on February 3 1992 November 18 1993 and June 1 1994."
What is: "Buzzy was struck by lightening on February 3, 1992, November 18, 1993, and June 1, 1994."
These are the most important parts of a RACE response.
What is "Cite evidence" and "Explain evidence"?
Deb was astonished by the sight of meteoroids waltzing across the midnight sky during the Perseid meteor shower.
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence and what does the figurative language mean?
What is personification, and she watched as the meteors shot from one side of the sky to the other.
What is the rising action?
There are three types of inferencing, list all three and give an example of each.
What is local, gap-filling, and global?
Fix the following sentence:
"No Semore you may not practice acupuncture on your little sister."
What is: "No, Semore, you may not practice acupuncture on your little sister."
What does RACE stand for?
Restate the question.
Answer the question.
Cite evidence to support your answer.
Explain your evidence to support your answer and citation.