Language and Structure

What is a noun?

• A describing word
• A naming word
• A doing word

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is an adjective?

• A describing word
• A naming word
• A doing word
• Describes how a verb is done

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

What is a verb?

• A naming word
• A doing word
• A describing word
• Describes how a verb is done

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is a pronoun?

• A naming word
• A word which replaces a full noun
• A describing word
• A doing word

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is foreshadowing?

• Hinting at something happening in the future of the text
• A play on words
• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is a simile?

• A big exaggeration
• A naming word
• Saying something IS something else
• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
• Talking directly to the reader
• Giving an inanimate object a human quality
• Language which causes an emotional reaction from the reader

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is an anecdote?

• A personal story that helps prove a point
• Speaking directly to the reader
• A repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
• A question that does not require an answer

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is hyperbole?

• Saying something IS something else
• A big exaggeration
• Speaking directly to the reader
• A personal story that helps prove a point

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The pen danced across the author's page

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D