Life As We Knew It- Spring

simile

• The author’s use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story.

• A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things

• A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are.

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly like things without using “like” or “as”.

Irony

• The process of using text evidence to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about an event in a story.

• The reasons for something and the results of events or actions.

• A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human form or characteristics.

• A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are.

Metaphor

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly like things without using “like” or “as”.

• An interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past.

• The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story

• A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things.

Flashback

• The author’s use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story.

• The process of using text evidence to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about an event in a story.

• An interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past.

• The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story

Personification

• The author’s use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story.

• A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human form or characteristics.

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly like things without using “like” or “as”.

• The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story

Foreshadow

• The process of using text evidence to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about an event in a story.

• A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are.

• The author’s use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story.

• A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things.

Cause and Effect

• A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things.

• The reasons for something and the results of events or actions.

• A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are.

• The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story

Mood

• The process of using text evidence to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about an event in a story.

• A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human form or characteristics.

• An interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past.

• The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story

Inferencing

• A type of figurative language that uses “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things.

• The process of using text evidence to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about an event in a story.

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly like things without using “like” or “as”.

• An interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past.

1. Page 8, “I don’t see how I am going to make it through the next two weeks, let alone two more years of high school.”

• Foreshadowing

• Cause and Effect

• Metaphor

• Personification