What are the most common forms of narrative, or point of view?

First Person, Third person (limited), Second person, Third person (omniscient)

Analysis is when you...

complete a detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation

Why should you have text evidence in your writing?

So that you can use it to illustrate your ideas and support your arguments

So that you can show the rising action

a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some way, but unlike in others

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as."

uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis (These books weigh a ton!)

Expression with less strength than expected.

a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as."

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as."

uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis (These books weigh a ton!)

a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some way, but unlike in others

Expression with less strength than expected.

a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as."

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as."

uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis (These books weigh a ton!)

a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some way, but unlike in others

Expression with less strength than expected.

uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis (These books weigh a ton!)

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as."

a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some way, but unlike in others

Expression with less strength than expected.

a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as."

Define: Understatement

Expression with less strength than expected.

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as."

uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis (These books weigh a ton!)

a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some way, but unlike in others

a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as."

Define: Personification

a figure of speech in which objects or nonhuman organisms are given human characteristics (Trees were dancing in the wind. My computer hates me.)

a play on words, often humorous, that uses words that have similar or identical sounds but very different meanings.

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side (ex. jumbo shrimp, act naturally, alone together, found missing)

A common expression understood figuratively, as the literal definition makes no sense.

the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.