Personal Narratives
A true story told in 1st person by someone who was involved in the event.
What is a personal narrative?
The place where a line ends.
What is a line break?
Two words used in a simile.
What is "like" and "as?"
True or false?
Metaphors compare two things using like or as.
What is false?
Things that can be personified.
What is any nonhuman idea, object, or animal?
A central idea in a text.
What is the theme?
Words that end in the same sound or sounds.
What is rhyme?
The runner was as fast as lightning.
What is being compared?
What is lightning and the runner?
What is being compared?
Time is money.
What is time and money?
What is being personified?
The stars winked in the night sky.
What are star?
The author's attitude that is reflected in the text.
What is tone?
The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
Grandpa is as wise as an owl.
What is being compared?
What is an owl and grandpa?
What is being compared?
The swimmer was a fish during the race, not even coming up for air.
What is the fish and swimmer?
What is being personified?
The fire swallowed everything in its path.
What is the fire?
When the author includes details about what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, or smelled, they are using these.
What are sensory details?
A section of a poem; consists of a line or group of lines.
What is a stanza?
The baby slept like a log.
What is being compared?
What is a log and baby?
What is being compared?
The boy is a shining star.
What is the star and the boy?
What is being personified?
The alarm clock yelled that it was time to get up.
What is the alarm clock?
These components should be included in a personal narrative paragraph.
What is an introduction, supporting details, and a conclusion?
The repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem.
What is anaphora?
True or false?
Similes and metaphors are exactly the same.
What is false?
What is being compared?
The school was a zoo with chaos around every corner.
What is the school, and a zoo?
What is being personified?
The flowers danced in the wind.
What are the flowers?