Definitions
Where the story takes place.
What is setting?
Which figurative language is the following:
I am as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
True or false.
False.
❓What do you use when Compare and Contrasting?
A Venn Diagram
The most exciting part of the story, where everything changes.
What is the climax?
Is an educated guess based on what you’ve read and saw
What is an inference?
Which figurative language is the following:
POW!
What is an onomatopoeia?
There can be more than one theme to a story or movie.
True or false.
True.
When you compare and contrast, you only tell how things are alike.
True or False.
False.
The introduction to a story, including the primary character's names, setting and time.
What is the exposition?
The message or meaning an author is trying to deliver
What is theme?
Which figurative language is the following:
The leaves danced their way through the lawn.
What is a personification?
Jacob's mother and father were billionaires. Jacob always got everything that he wanted. When Jacob was three, his parents paid the cost of Sesame Street to come to his birthday party. In 10th grade, Jacob wanted to be the best soccer player. His parents paid for Pirlo to privately train him. By the time he was an adult, he was bored and nothing he bought made him happy.
- Money doesn't buy happiness.
❓Name at least three words we can use when comparing and contrasting.
Like, but, however, same, both, as well, different, while
The end of the story. It resolves the problem, however, the end of the story is not always a happy ending.
What is the resolution?
The character who has a major role in the plot.
Who is the main character?
Which figurative language is the following:
My nephew is a cuddly baby bear.
What is a metaphor?
A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow bridge, he looked down and saw his reflection in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a foolish Dog he had been.
- Don't be greedy.
- Be grateful for what you have.
- Think before you act.
❓When we compare and contrast while reading we are looking for?
Similarities and Differences
All the events that lead to the climax. The problem is introduced.
What is the rising action?
The time period in which a story occurs.
Which figurative language is the following:
He is like a night owl.
What is a simile?
When Diana was 18, she wanted to dance on Broadway. When she went to her 1st audition, she was told that she would never get a job as a dancer. Diana didn't let this stop her. Diana took every dance lesson that she could to keep improving. A year later, Diana signed a contract to dance in her
- Determination is the key to success.
- Don't let peoples negative comments get you down.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Differences between two subjects, places, persons, things, or ideas.
What is contrasting?
Everything that happens as a result of the climax. Questions are being answered and everything is wrapping-up.
What is falling action?