Figurative Language
This type of figurative language refers to an exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole
These two words refer to the attitude of the writer and the feeling the story is trying to establish.
What are tone and mood?
This alphabetical list of covered topics is found in the back of a nonfiction book.
Most stories are organized this way, according to when the events happen.
What is chronological?
This woman is the first female vice president of the United States, as well as the first African American and first Asian American to hold the office.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This type of figurative language refers to a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A struggle between two opposing forces is called this.
What is conflict?
This text feature is a picture or illustration with the parts labeled.
What is a diagram?
When you want to show how two things are similar and different, you would write a text with this structure.
What is compare and contrast?
The availability of this was recently expanded to 12-15 year olds.
What is the COVID vaccine?
This type of figurative language refers to a word that sounds like the thing it describes (eg. "Crash", "Bang", "Pow"
What is onomatopoeia?
The most exciting part of a story is called this.
What is the climax?
This list of chapter titles and topics covered is usually found near the front of a book.
What is the table of contents?
If you wanted to tell someone all about your house and what is inside it, you would use this text structure.
What is description?
The CDC just made news when they announced that fully vaccinated people would not have to wear these in most situations.
What are masks?
This type of figurative language is a comparison WITHOUT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The message or moral of a story is called this.
What is theme?
This list of vocabulary words and definitions is usually found near the back of a nonfiction book.
What is a glossary?
What is cause and effect?
This popular anime currently has a film version in theaters.
What is Demon Slayer?
This type of figurative language describes a statement that makes no sense literally, for example "Raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
These two words describe the main character of a story and the character in opposition to the main character.
What are protagonist and antagonist?
This is the term for writing that appears underneath a photo or illustration that gives context for the image.
What is a caption?
An article offering potential things that could be done to stop climate change would be organized this way.
What is problem solution?
This summer, billions of these insects will emerge from underground to spawn, an event that happens every 17 years.
What are cicadas?