What is Author's Craft?

• Literary Devices

• Style

• Narrative Elements

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

• A direct comparison of two different things

• What someone does when they're really happy

• Animals or objects are given human qualities

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• An electric car

• A direct comparison of two different things

• A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

• Using quotations around text evidence

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• When a non-living object or animal is spoken of as though it is a person

• When characterization brings a character to life in a story

• Comparing two different things using "like" or "as"

• When a third-person narrator has knowledge of all things in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• A literal comparison of two different things

• An exaggeration for purposeful effect, and not to be taken literally

• A comparison of literal things

• A very active aquatic mammal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an allusion?

• A magic trick

• When your eyes play tricks on you

• When an author refers to a person, event, thing in history, or work of art or literature

• When an author makes something disappear in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is parallel structure?

• Two identical buildings

• Two lines that never intersect

• Repetition of the same pattern of words in a sentence or a passage.

• Two characters who are the same height

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is irony?

• When the outcome is the opposite of what is expected

• A well timed joke or humor within a story

• When characters face conflict in fiction

• When you call the hotel desk to help get wrinkles out of your dress shirt

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is imagery?

• When fiction takes place in a museum or art gallery

• Descriptive language that appeals to one of the reader's senses

• Descriptive language that focuses on the setting

• When a character has a dream

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A short, often interesting story that is used to make a point.

• denotation

• alliteration

• limerick

• anecdote

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D