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Potluck
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A type of figurative language that is a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile
100
What genre mixes elements of true historical events and a fictional story?
What is Historical Fiction?
100
To identify the similarities and differences of two or more subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
100
claim
What tells you the author's views on an issue?
100
Name the four reasons authors write.
What is persuade, inform or explain, entertain, and express thoughts and feelings?
200
This type of figurative language is an expression that is exaggerated.
What is hyperbole?
200
What element of plot is described as being the turning point or point of greatest tension in a story?
What is the climax?
200
The restating of information in your own words.
What is to paraphrase?
200
advertisements, billboards, flyers, newpaper articles, signs, commercials, previews, trailers
What type of media is used to persuade?
200
When you encounter an unknown word and you use the words or phrases surrounding the word that provide hints about the words meaning.
What are context clues?
300
When a poet makes a picture in the readers mind with the words that they chose.
What is visual imagery?
300
What plot element is revealed in the rising action but isn't resolved until the end of the story?
What is the conflict?
300
Charts, tables, webs, and diagrams are all examples of this visual illustration that helps readers understand text.
What is a graphic organizer?
300
This technique uses strong feelings, rather than facts and evidence, to persuade.
What is emotional appeals? Scare tactic is an example of one.
300
A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people.
What is dialect?
400
Giving inanimate objects person like qualities is what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
400
This occurs when the writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story and it creates suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Organizes information in time order.
What is Chronological?
400
factual evidence
What technique is a good way to persuade others?
400
A writers account of his or her own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
What type of figurative language is found in this quote? "Poetry is music for the soul."
What is a metaphor?
500
A message about life or human nature that is conveyed by a literary piece?
What is a theme?
500
Name four text structures or organizational patterns that haven't been used on this quiz?
What is cause and effect, problem/solution, sequence, description, proposition/support
500
In an argument this is the author's position on the issue.
What is the author's claim found in the thesis statement.
500
What do you call the main character in a story and what do you call the force working against the main character?
What is the protagonist and antagonist?