unit 1 study aid

what is the definition of theme

• the message the story is trying tell you

• supporting details

• a synanym for main idea

• the summary of the story

Choose the right examples of first person point of view.

• She hops off of the train and catches a taxi

• I went to the supermarket to get some groceries

• Are you going to be okay walking to school alone

• Alfred said he went to piano lessons

• I wonder how I am going to sneak out of the house

Which of these examples show the author's purpose?

• to persuade

• to educate or inform

• to show their feelings

• to be historic

• to entertain

What is the central idea of a passage?

• the main message

• kind of like the author purpose

• an opinion

• a fact or reason

What is biographical writing?

• a type of narrative nonfiction

• when an author tells the story of another person's life

what are some of the elements of poetry

• stanzas

• prose

• complete sentences

• complete sentences that is broken up into separate lines

• paragraphs

What is simile?

• something that compares two things

• something that compares to things using "like or as"

• something that shows a comparison

• something that says one thing is another thing

What is a metaphor?

• something that compares two things by stating that one thing is another

• something that is made up of two or more words that contradict (the opposite) each other

• something that has a figurative meaning and that is not literal

• something that makes a sound

What is alliteration?

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• the repetition of the first consonant sounds i several words in a sentence

• gives human characteristics inanimate objects animal or ideas

What is a hyperbole?

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• something that tells you a story

• something that makes you really hyper