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Figurative Language
Critical Verbs I
Narrative Elements
Critical Verbs II
Miscellaneous
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a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like, as, or than.
What is a simile?
100
to find the differences between two or more things
What is contrast?
100
a struggle that a character has with him or herself.
What is internal conflict?
100
To find similarities between two or more things
What is compare?
100
put something in your own words
What is paraphrase?
200
a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using the words like, as, or than.
What is a metaphor?
200
to conclude based on evidence and prior knowledge
What is infer?
200
a struggle between a character and an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
200
to break something down into its parts, and look at each part to better understand the whole
What is analyze?
200
when the author hints at something that is going to happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
300
A type of figurative language that is an exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
300
to quote a text as an example or to support an idea
What is cite?
300
the main idea; the message
What is theme?
300
to back up; to hold up; to provide evidence
What is support?
300
the feeling behind a word; the association a word brings to mind
What is connotation?
400
A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
400
to follow
What is trace?
400
the narrator is a character in the story
What is first person point of view?
400
to express clearly
What is articulate?
400
the author's attitude toward a subject
What is tone?
500
Example: The sun smiled down on me as I walked outside.
What is personification?
500
This is what you do when you are reading "between the lines"
What is infer?
500
the narrator is not in the story
What is third person point of view?
500
This is what you do when you need to understand something better.
What is support?
500
A similar relationship between things. Example: MJ is to pop music as Beethoven is to classical.
What is analogy?