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  • What type of figurative language is used? "Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open."
    Hyperbole
  • What type of figurative language is used? "The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window."
    Personification
  • What type of figurative language is used? "The tree shook its branches angrily. "
    personification
  • What is a rebuttal?
    Proving the counterclaim wrong.
  • What is a summary?
    Telling the most important details of a story while leaving out the unimportant details.
  • What type of figurative language is being used? "Drip, Drop, Drip, Drop went the rain drops falling on the roof of the house."
    Onomatopoeia
  • What is a protagonist?
    The hero/main character of the story.
  • What is a direct quote?
    A copy and pasted piece of information set aside in quotation marks to show they are not your words, but they are the author's words.
  • What is a counterclaim
    The opposite sides claim against your claim.
  • What is the theme of Cinderella?
    (various answers) kindness will take you places. Being Selfish and mean will get you nowhere.
  • What are supporting details?
    Ideas that prove the main idea of a text.
  • What is personification?
    Giving human traits to non living things.
  • What type of figurative language is used? "The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us"
    Simile
  • What type of figurative language is used? "I was so hungry that I even ate the plate."
    Hyperbole
  • What is a claim?
    Your opinion about a topic.
  • What is a sequence?
    Events that happen in order.
  • What could be a theme for the movie Wall-E?
    (various answers may apply) Humanity needs to protect the earth. Friendship will get you through hard times. etc.
  • What is a paraphrase?
    Using your own words to describe evidence from a text. It is not copy and pasted, but still should be cited.
  • What does it mean to cite textual evidence?
    Use examples from the text to back up/support your response.
  • What is setting?
    Where and when the story takes place.
  • What is hyperbole?
    An exaggeration
  • What type of figurative language is being used? "The baby was like an octopus, grabbing for everything in sight."
    Simile
  • What is an antagonist?
    The enemy or villain of a story.
  • What does it mean to "say something explicitly"
    to be very clear with your words, and not be confusing.
  • What is theme?
    The moral or life lesson the story is teaching the reader.
  • What is a plot?
    The main events that make up a story.
  • What does it mean to be credible?
    To be believable
  • What is a simile?
    A comparison between two things using like or as.
  • What type of figurative language is used? "Teddy tiger tried tying teepees together."
    Alliteration
  • What is alliteration?
    The repeating of consonant sounds in nearby words.
  • What is onomatopoeia?
    Sound words
  • What is a metaphor?
    A direct comparison between to things. Calling one thing the other with the to be verb.
  • What is a theme for The Three Little Pigs?
    (Various answers may apply) Hard Work pays off. Protect those you love. etc
  • What type of figurative language is used? "Silly sally sang a silly summer song."
    Alliteration
  • What type of figurative language is used? "Mr. Z groaned as he got up from the floor."
    Onomatopoeia
  • What is an inference?
    an educated guess.
  • What is main idea?
    What a text is mostly about in a sentence.
  • What three things do all complete sentences need?
    A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
  • What type of figurative language is used? "He was a library of information about baseball."
    Metaphor
  • What does it mean to be accurate?
    to be correct or right
  • What type of figurative language is used? My father was the sun and the moon to me
    Metaphor
  • What is conflict?
    When there is a problem between a person or people.
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