Vocabulary
To examine something carefully by breaking it into parts to understand it better.
What is analyze?
The opening part of a story where the author introduces the characters, setting, and basic background information
What is exposition
A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Which figurative language creates a comparison using like or as?
What is simile?
The texts explains events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
Able to produce abundant plants or crops.
What is fertile?
The part of the plot where there is self vs. self, character vs. nature
What is rising action?
Identify the noun: The scientist examined the mysterious artifact.
What is scientist/artifact?
Which device makes something nonhuman act like a person?
What is personification?
A text explains how two things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
The feeling you experience when something is difficult or disappointing.
What is fustration?
A character's personality can be revealed through what they say, think, do, and how others react to them. What is this called?
What is characterization?
Turn off the lights. Is this imperative?
What is yes?
Which device uses extreme exaggeration?
What is hyperbole?
Words such as first,next,then,finally are commonly associated with which structure?
What is cronological order?
Easily broken, damaged, or harmed.
What is fragile?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
Is running a present participle or past participle?
What is present ?
Identify -Her words were daggers
What is a metaphor?
Why would an author use compare and contrast?
To help readers understand similarities and differences.
Needing someone or something else for help, support, or care.
What is dependent?
The events following the climax move the story toward its ending.
What is falling action?
What is the implied subject of most imperative sentences?
What is you?
The wind whispered secrets through the trees.
What figurative language is used?
What is personification?
Two articles discuss climate change. One explains its causes and effects; the other presents solutions. How would this structure affect what readers learn?
The first one helps readers understand why climate change happens and its consequences. The second focuses on ways to address the problem.