Figurative Language
Use "like" or "as" to make comparisons
Simile
The person telling the story.
Narrator
To find ways two or more things/ideas are similar.
Compare
The process of combining numbers, resulting in a sum.
Addition
A polygon with three sides and three angles.
Triangle
Give an object or animal human characteristics.
Personification
An educated guess based on evidence
Inference
Tell what you think will happen in a story or passage.
The process of taking away a number from another, resulting in a difference.
Lines that extend in the same direction and never intersect.
Parallel
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
alliteration
Hints within a sentence or passage that help determine an unknown word's meaning.
Context Clues
When a story returns to an event that happened earlier.
Flashback
The process of repeated addition, resulting in a product.
Multiplication
A symbol (usually a letter) that represents a number.
Variable
Make comparisons without using "like" or "as."
metaphor
The message or central point of the story.
theme
To find differences in two or more things/ideas.
Contract
The process of separating into equal groups, resulting in a quotient.
Division
A mathematical phrase that may contain numbers, variables, and operations but no equal/inequality sign.
Expression
Extreme exaggeration; Say or write more than is true.
Hyperbole
To inform, to entertain, or to persuade (the reason an author writes).
Author's Purpose
Conversation between characters in a story, often indicated by quotation marks.
Dialogue
A number that can be multiplied by another to get a product.
Factor
The total distance around the outside of a two-dimensional shape.
Perimeter