Figurative Language
Comparing two objects using like or as
What is a simile?
Type of sentence - The quiet man yelled at the baseball game.
What is a simple sentence?
Difficult, challenging time
What is hardship?
Name the 3 types of writing you learned in reading this year.
Explanatory (Informational), Narrative, Argumentative (Opinion)
When answering a question, you need this to back up your answer.
What is text evidence?
"The leaves danced in the backyard." What type of figurative language?
Personification
Type of sentence: Since it rained last night, the team cannot play their game today.
What is a complex sentence?
Feeling sorry for someone else
What is sympathy?
What is the name of the first paragraph in an explanatory essay?
What is an introduction paragraph?
The small writing under a photograph in an informational text
What is a caption?
A group of words that mean something different. "It's raining cats and dogs outside."
What is an idiom?
Name the intensive pronoun in the sentence. "She couldn't paint her toenails by herself."
What is herself?
A person that helps someone else; a teacher; an older person
What is a mentor?
The first sentence in an explanatory essay
What is a hook?
The events in a story or text are called
What is plot?
Group of words that are exaggerated
What is hyperbole?
Name the possessive pronoun in the sentence. "Lois and Bill cannot wait to go to their lake house this summer!"
What is their?
You learn a lesson from reading a text, poem, or story.
What is theme?
Name the 3 parts of a narrative essay
Beginning, Middle, End
Name a positive connotation for the word "pretty."
Name a negative connotation for the word "pretty."
Beautiful, gorgeous, attractive, good-looking
Ugly, hideous, plain, disgusting
Write an example of alliteration on the board.
The dirty dog dumped trash on the deck.
Write a compound sentence on the board.
The man took his boat on the lake, but he quickly found a hole in the boat.
Write a sentence using the word "hostile" in a sentence.
The hostile crowd was yelling at the players during the game.
How many sentences should you write per paragraph? How many paragraphs should you write per essay?
4 - 6 sentences; 4 - 5 paragraphs
Name the reading term used for "a brief statement or account of the main points of something."
What is a summary?