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?
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?
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?
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?
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 pronoun?
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?