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Figurative Language
Story Elements
100
Synonyms
What are words that mean the same or nearly the same?
100
making inferences
What is it called when the reader identifies the details that the author has given, then think about what you already know from your own life and finally put together story clues and what you know to figure out details the author has not told you?
100
opinion
What is what someone believes?
100
simile
What is a language that compares two unlike things, using the word like or as
100
setting
What is where the story takes place?
200
Antonyms
What are words that mean the opposite of each other?
200
the main idea
What is the most important idea of the selection?
200
fact
What is information that you can prove?
200
idiom
What is a language that uses words that together have a different meaning than the words mean by themselves.
200
characters
What is /are the people or animals called in the story?
300
Root words
What are words that have no prefix or suffix?
300
facts and details
What is the information that supports the main idea?
300
the effect
What is what happened?
300
metaphor
What is a language that compares two things without the word like or as?
300
problem
What is the conflict called in the story?
400
Affixes
What are prefixes and suffixes?
400
context clues
What is the information in surrounding words or phrases that can be used to understand the meaning of a word?
400
cause
What is why something happens?
400
The sunny day was a gift after a week of rain.
What is a metaphor?
400
solution
What is it called when the conflict is solved in the story?
500
Figurative Language
What are words used to help readers create pictures, or images in their mind?
500
author's purpose
What is the reason an author writes?
500
sequence of events
What is the order in which things happen?
500
Will you give me a hand with this heavy box?
What is an idiom?
500
story elements
What is the name of the parts of a story?