Literary Terms and Author's Craft Practice

True or false: the language is the vocabulary, precise nouns, sensory words, and vivid verbs that make the text more interesting

• True

• false

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Exaggerations that make things sound bigger, better, or more than what they truly are

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The final exam was easy as  ABC!

• Simile 

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes

• compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• compares two similar things 

• tells what a person is doing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am as quick as a fox.

• simile

• not a simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

what is a metaphor

• ^{is when someone compares you to something without saying like}

• when you say a hint to someone

• when you compare with someone saying like

• I don´t know

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Mom was a busy beaver as she prepared for the holiday party.
What are the words in blue an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When an author gives animals, objects, ideas, or actions, the qualities of humans, he/she is using...

• dialect

• personification

• characterization

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

An expression that conveys the opposite belief of the speaker in a humorous way is called...

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• irony

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Comparisons between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" are called...

• similes

• alliteration

• metaphors

• dialects

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5