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This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
To re-tell the main idea (most important parts) of a story or part of the story.
This is the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This genre or type of literature uses past events to tell a story. This genre might use a real person, but their actions and words are made up.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is metaphor?
A good summary answers the 5 Ws.
Name the 5 Ws.
What are who, what, where, when, why?
This is the type of POV in which the narrator is part of the story they are telling.
What is first person point of view?
When one or more adjectives can go in any order in a sentence and use a comma to separate them, they are called this.
What are coordinate adjectives?
This is the most important part of historical fiction.
What is setting (time, place)?
This type of figurative language exaggerates details to show importance.
Rather than copying the text directly (or from the internet), a good summary should be one that is this.
What is in your own words?
The point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story and only knows one character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited point of view?
When figuring out adjectives are coordinate adjectives and need a comma, you should use this word between them to test.
What is the word 'and'?
When reading/writing historical fiction which of the things below must fit with the time period?
Language
Events
Clothing
What is all of these?
The following sentence is an example of what figurative language?
The mother was a saint for listening to the child's long story.
What is metaphor?
This is a universal concept or truth that the audience can relate to in a story.
Think about the story of the spider from our lessons.
What is theme?
What is third person omniscient?
In the following example the comma must come where?
The big red dog was very nice.
Where is between big and red?
This is what we are doing when we list the similarities and differences between two things (like events in a book vs. events a movie)
What is compare and contrast?
The following is an example of what type of figurative language?
The sky cried tears of sadness during the last minutes of the shutout baseball game.
What is personification?
You do this when you use context clues and what you know to make an educated guess.
What is infer or make an inference?
The point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story and only tells about actions of characters, no thoughts or feelings are shared directly.
What is third person objective point of view?
The following needs a comma between what words?
My parents brought home my beautiful sweet sister from the hospital.
What is between beautiful and sweet?
This is what we should use if we are unsure of what a word means in a passage.
What are context clues?