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What is alliteration?

The repeating of consonant sounds in nearby words.

What is onomatopoeia?

Sound words

What does it mean to be credible?

To be believable

What is setting?

Where and when the story takes place.

What is main idea?

What a text is mostly about in a sentence.

What is a theme for The Three Little Pigs?

(Various answers may apply) Hard Work pays off. Protect those you love. etc

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 metaphor?

A direct comparison between to things. Calling one thing the other with the to be verb.

What type of figurative language is used? "Silly sally sang a silly summer song."

Alliteration

What type of figurative language is used? "The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window."

Personification

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 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 theme?

The moral or life lesson the story is teaching the reader.

What is personification?

Giving human traits to non living things.

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 type of figurative language is used? "The tree shook its branches angrily. "

personification

What does it mean to cite textual evidence?

Use examples from the text to back up/support your response.

What type of figurative language is used? "I was so hungry that I even ate the plate."

Hyperbole

What is an inference?

an educated guess.

What type of figurative language is used? "Mr. Z groaned as he got up from the floor."

Onomatopoeia

What are supporting details?

Ideas that prove the main idea of a text.

What is conflict?

When there is a problem between a person or people.

What does it mean to "say something explicitly"

to be very clear with your words, and not be confusing.

What is a summary?

Telling the most important details of a story while leaving out the unimportant details.

What is an antagonist?

The enemy or villain of a story.

What type of figurative language is being used? "The baby was like an octopus, grabbing for everything in sight."

Simile

What does it mean to be accurate?

to be correct or right

What three things do all complete sentences need?

A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.

What is a protagonist?

The hero/main character of the story.

What is a counterclaim

The opposite sides claim against your claim.

What type of figurative language is used? "Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open."

Hyperbole

What is a plot?

The main events that make up a story.

What is hyperbole?

An exaggeration

What is the theme of Cinderella?

(various answers) kindness will take you places. Being Selfish and mean will get you nowhere.

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? My father was the sun and the moon to me

Metaphor

What is a rebuttal?

Proving the counterclaim wrong.

What type of figurative language is used? "He was a library of information about baseball."

Metaphor

What is a claim?

Your opinion about a topic.

What type of figurative language is used? "Teddy tiger tried tying teepees together."

Alliteration

What is a simile?

A comparison between two things using like or as.

What is a sequence?

Events that happen in order.