Writing
What is an example of Simile ?
The boy was so fast he ran like a cheeta.
What does ELA stand for ?
E = English
L = Language
A = Arts
What are five types of of text.
What is information text, narrative text, poetry, drama, non fiction
This is a text that uses imaginary characters, events, and worlds.
What is fiction?
What are three types of figures of speech?
Name all three pounutions.
What is a period, question mark, or exclamation mark.
What is the function of conjunctions and prepositions in sentences.
What is a function that connects words? What is a function that indicates a relationship between words?
This is what you call a book that talks about the author's life from beginning to end.
What is a Biography or narrative text ?
This is a text that uses unimaginary or realistic characters, events, worlds, and plot.
What is a nonfiction?
what is a word or phrase used in nonfiction sense or rhetorical effect.
What sensory detail is in these sentences
For a month last fall, the companies that picked up the city's garbage stopped working. When people left their trash out by the rub, it just sat there. The sour, rotten stench got worse everyday. Until fall ended when the trucks returned.
The sensory detail in the sentence which is used is smell "The sour, rotten stench got worse everyday."
What are Past tense, Present Tense, and Future Tense.
What is a verb tense that expresses an action that happened previously? What is a verb tense that expresses an action that is happening currently? What is a verb tense that expresses an action that has not yet happened?
This is a text that uses facts, a particular topic, hypotheses that are tested, a description of methods, key results, and a discussion.
What is a scientific text ?
Is the story below a nonfiction or fiction
The traveler went to a beautiful land of dragons and creatures people would only dream of existing.
This story is fiction because it has events and creatures that are imaginary or realistic.
This is a figure of speech that uses the process of creating a sound that imitates or suggests the sound that it describes. This is a figure of speech which is when a character addresses something that is absent or can't respond.
What is the figure of speech called Onomatopoeia? What is the figure of speech called Apostrophe?
What is Chronological Order in a story ?
The events of a story in a time order of a story being ordered in which the event happened an example of this would be like Hurricane Gordon happened in 1994, and the next point would be Hurricane Luis which occured in 1995.
What are three figurative language.
Hyperbole which expresses an extreme exaggeration, Simile that compares between two different things using "Like" or "As", Idiom a phrase that presents a figurative meaning attached to it.
What is an informational text ?
what is a text made to inform the reader about a specific topic an example of this is a book made to inform the reader about Volcanoes.
This is the main difference between fiction and nonfiction.
fiction refers to literature that is not bounded to real life and from a writer's imagination, unlike nonfiction which refers to factual stories based on real people, events, or information.
What is the difference between figure of speech and figurative language ?
Figurative language refers to a language that contains figurative language, while figures of speech are the particular techniques.
What is cause and effect in the science cross cutting concepts.
Cause and Effect, is how things are connected by identifying the reasons behind an occurrence and what that occurrence results in. Cause and Effect also uses a problem and a solution an example of this is if it is raining outside and you need to visit the store; as a result, you bring an umbrella so the rain doesn't fall on you.
What are interjections?
An abrupt remark made especially to make an interruption such as gosh, goodness(surprise) or boo, ew, yuck, ugh, shoot, whoops, rats (displeasure) being used to express displeasure and surprise.
How does the narrator's point of view influence how events are described?
The narrator's experience, biases, emotions, and understanding of the event or characters shape their own narration characters who do this or undergo this are called dynamic characters.
What is the difference between nonfiction, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction focuses the story with a narrative plot with attributes of fiction and nonfiction, unlike nonfiction that focuses on reality like focusing on information, events, or real people, and fiction focuses on imaginary characters, events, and settings.
What are 5 types of figures of speech and their definitions.
Simile: what rhetorical device compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?
Alliteration: what is a repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning or a word or phrase?
Onomatopoeia: What are words that recollect the actual sound of the thing it refers to?
Irony: What is a characterization by contrast and out of place between reality and appearance?
Astophe: what is a figure of speech used to address something who is gone or is cant respond.