Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The place and time where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
True or false: TDAs do not need evidence.
What is false?
Dialogue is the written conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is true?
The type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This part of speech shows action or a state of being and tells what the subject does.
What is a verb?
This is when an author directly tells you what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
The second sentence of the TDA prompt asks you to do something.
What is the task?
This first person point of view uses pronouns such as "I," "me," "myself," and "us."
What is true?
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract concept is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, often referring to a person, place, or thing already mentioned.
What is a pronoun?
This is when an author shows you what a character is like.
What is indirect characterization?
This writing strategy is used for writing a five paragraph essay.
What is R.A.C.E.S?
What is false?
This type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
This part of speech describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
This is the overall message or lesson that an author conveys through a story.
What is the theme?
The first sentence of the TDA prompt.
What is a general statement?
In second-person point of view, the narrator addresses the reader directly using the pronoun "you."
What is true?
This is when words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound, like in "She sells seashells by the seashore."
What is alliteration?
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence, like "in," "on," or "under."
What is a preposition?
This type of narration provides the thoughts and feelings of more than one character and uses pronouns like "he," "she," or "they."
What is third-person omniscient?
These three things occur in the Cite and Explain part of the RACES strategy?
What is SAY, MEAN, MATTER?
The theme of a story is the subject or general idea it is about, such as love or friendship.
What is false?