Academic Vocab Quiz #2

A figure of speech comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Non-ficition text focused on a main idea/topic with details to describe it

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence

• Problem/Solution

• Description

The author's attitude toward his or her subject

• mood

• tone

• first-person point of view

• conflict

An exaggeration

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Non-fiction text focused on on an event that happened and resulted in another event to follow

• problem/solution

• sequence

• cause/effect

• compare/contrast

The feeling a writer creates for his/her reader

• mood

• tone

• internal conflict

• characterization

The creation or construction of a fictional character

• plot

• traits

• description

• characterization

The narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns such as "I, me, my, myself,we,our, and us"

• First-person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person Omniscient POV

• Third-person limited POV

The narrator is NOT a character in the story and uses pronouns such as "he, him, she, her, they, their, and them"

• First-person POV

• Second-person POV

• Third-person POV

Two items are compared not using "like" or "as"

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification