Figurative Language
She was as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
What punctuation is used to separate words in a series?
What is a comma?
The where and when (or place and time) of a story.
What is setting?
The words that explain what a picture shows.
What is the caption?
This point of view uses words like me, I, us, and we
What is first person?
A comparison NOT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Which part of speech is a person, place, idea, or thing?
What is a noun?
The lesson (main message) given in a story.
What is theme?
The part of a nonfiction text that defines words.
What is a glossary?
What is the meaning of the root "mono"?
What is one?
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
What is personification?
What is a preposition?
A type of fiction that is based on historical facts. Name the type and give an example.
What is historical fiction? Ex: I Survived
The author's purpose is to tell you how things are the same and how things are different.
What is compare/contrast?
Name the POV. Elizabeth works very hard in school. She is very proud of herself and her good grades.
What is third person?
Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
What is alliteration?
Jump, fishes, climbed, and running are all examples of this part of speech.
What are verbs?
A type of fiction that is based on imagined future scientific or technological advances. Name the type and give an example.
What is science fiction? Ex: Star Wars
Text is written in an order or timeline format.
What is sequence / chronological order?
This type of word is two words combined with an apostrophe such as can't, wouldn't, I'd, and won't.
What is a contraction?
Paul Bunyan could cut down a forest of trees with one swing of his ax.
What is hyperbole?
These are words that mean the same thing like small and tiny.
What is a synonym?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
These are the five text structures you've been taught this year.
Sequence, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, and cause/effect.
These are words with opposite meanings like beginning and end.
What is an antonym?