Figurative Language
This form of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike items.
What is a simile ?
These are the two large genres subgenres exist within.
What are fiction and non-fiction ?
The P.O.V. uses words like "me", "my" and "I"
What is 1st person P.O.V. ?
The genre this book belongs in.
What is a memoir ?
A personal story or event that really happened to use is this type of writing.
What is a narrative essay ?
The type of figurative language compares two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor ?
Text the provides researched ideas, facts and principles about a variety of topics
What is informational ?
The 3 words P.O.V. stands for ?
What is Point of View ?
The author of this story.
Who is Amy Tan ?
The smallest number of paragraphs that should be in a personal narrative essay.
What is 4 ?
Using the same beginning sound over and over in a sentence is this type of figurative language.
What is an alliteration ?
Made up stories that have relatable, every-day type of conflicts for readers which could really happen.
What is realistic fiction ?
When the narrator is not part of the story but focuses mostly on one character, is this type of P.O.V.
What is 3rd person point of view ?
The author uses this form of figurative language when she explains about her mother going to the bathroom and taking her big wrapping cloth off. At first it seems unimportant but by the end of the story readers discover why this detail was so important after all.
What is foreshadowing ?
The line that leaves your reader with the eagerness to read more is called a ........
What is a hook ?
The winter storm was a savage beast.
The type of figurative language used in the statement above
What is metaphor ?
A story about the life of an individual not written by that person but a professional writer.
What is a biography ?
When characters names are most often used in a story, this is the P.O.V. in those stories.
What is 3rd person ?
The number of siblings the author of this story had in the story.
What is 2 ? One brother and one sister
This type of writing is most often in chronological order.
What is narrative writing ?
This type of figurative language gives objects/things human like qualities.
What is personification ?
A self told story about one specific aspect or small time frame of a writer's life. So Far From the Bamboo Grove is this type of writing.
What is memoir ?
When a writer writes a book about him/herself, these pronouns will be used most often.
What are me, my and/or I ?
The name of the author's brother.
What/Who is Hideyo ?
The name of the brackets used around dialogue when you put it in narrative writing.
What are quotation marks ?