Figurative Language
Comprehension terms #1
Comprehension terms #2
Types of Literature and Fictional Elements
Facts, Opinions, Inferences
100

A direct comparison between two or more things.

What is metaphor?

100

Quote a passage or admit existence of a truth or an idea

What is Cite?

100

A difference between what is said and what is meant.

What is irony?

100

In what person (first or third) are the sentences written? He fixed his car in two days.

What is third person.

100

Fact or Opinion? Athletes are role models and should conduct themselves accordingly in the public eye.

What is an opinion?

200

Choose simile, metaphor or personification: The swimming pool was inviting me to jump in.

What is a personification?

200

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

What is imagery?

200

The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.

What is foreshadow?

200

What the story is about: it usually has a problem (conflict), a turning point (climax), and a solution (resolution) to the problem.

What is plot?

200
Fact or Opinion? In 2007 over 8,400 people were hospitalized in America for dance related injuries.
What is a Fact?
300

Choose simile, metaphor or personification: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - Shakespeare

What is a metaphor?

300

The author's point of a selection.

What is central idea?

300

Weigh to what extent something is true.

What is assess?

300

In what person (first or third) are the sentences written? Eva thought her mother needed hospitalization.

What is third person.

300
Fact or opinion? Dancing is a safe and healthy activity.
What is an opinion.
400

Choose simile, metaphor or personification? ROMEO: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

What is a metaphor?

400

To conclude from evidence or premises/An educated guess as to what is happening in the text.

What is inference?

400

How something affects something else.

What is impacts?

400

How you feel when you read a story (sad, happy, scared...)

What is mood?

400
Fact or opinion? Raleigh is the state capitol of North Carolina.
What is fact?
500

Ah, never think that ships forget a shore, Or bitter seas, or winds that made them wise;

What is personification?

500

To judge or determine the significance or worth

What is evaluate?

500

To decide something using evidence or facts.

What is to determine?

500

A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

What is a allusion?

500
The majority of automobiles in use today are powered by gasoline.
What is fact?