AUTHORS PURPOSE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

The THEME of a story can best be described as:

• What the story is about

• A summary of the story

• The moral, message, or authors purpose behind a story.

• The time and place the story occurs.

Which answer is an example of a simile?

• The snowy white blanket

• His legs were as hard and thin as a ram's.

• Life is a puzzlement.

• Captain Hardcastle was never still.

Which answer is an example of a metaphor?

• He had greasy orange hair like little tramlines.

• All the men are enemies and small boys are insects.

• It was like a rifle shot.

• You've been smoking goat's tobacco.

Personification is when:

• You compare two things

• You give a non human object or animal human attributes

• Things are opposite

• You describe a person

Imagery is when:

• We have an imagination.

• A character does something wrong.

• Something funny happens.

• Something or someone is describe in such great detail that we can imagine it with one of our 5 senses.

The difference between a simile and metaphor is:

• Nothing.

• Everything.

• A simile has 'like' or 'as' in it.

• A simile is better than a metaphor.

What is the Author's Purpose?

• Why an author writes - their reason for writing.

• The message an author is trying to communicate.

• Who an author is writing to - the specific group they target.

• How an author communicates - the tricks and methods they use.

Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point.

• hyperbole

• simile

• oxymoron

• pun

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• pun

• alliteration

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks.