Figurative Language
What is a simile?
A sentence that uses the words like or as
What time should you arrive to school in order to take the exam?
Before 8 am
What text structure is used when an author shows how two things are alike and different?
Compare and Contrast
Where the story takes place
Setting
What do we call people or animals in a story?
Characters
He ran as fast as a cheetah?
Which kind of figurative language is this?
Simile
What strategy should you use for answering multiple choice questions?
Process of Elimination
What is another term for sequencing?
Chronological order
What the story is mostly about
Main Idea
What do you use from the story to support your answer or idea?
Text evidence/ details
The wind whispered through the trees.
Which kind of figurative language is this?
Metaphor
What are the dates for the state exam
April 29-30
the author explains how two or more things are alike and how they are different.
What text structure is this?
Compare and contrast
A lesson or message that can be found in the story
What do we call a short retelling of the most important parts of a story?
A summary
The leaves waved goodbye as we walked by
Which kind of figurative language is this?
Personification
What are the components of an extended response
Introduction
Body paragraphs
conclusion
You're reading an article about pollution in the ocean. The first part explains what's going wrong, and the second part tells what people are doing to fix it. What is the author's way of organizing the text?
Problem and solution
What do we call the main problem a character faces in a story?
Conflict
What do we call the person who is telling the story?
Narrator
What is personification?
Giving human like traits to things that are not human
If an author writes to inform, entertain, or persuade, what are they showing us?
Author's purpose
What is text structure?
The way the author organizes their information
When the author doesn't tell you everything and you have to use clues + What you know to figure it out, what skill are you using?
What do we call the type of story, like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama?
Genre