English Chp. 13

Lesson 1
Figurative Language: Phrasing that doesn’t have a literal language.
Literal Language: Text that means exactly what it says.
Simile: A comparison that uses “Like,” or “As.”
Metaphor: A comparison that compares two things.
Hyperbole: A form of text that exaggerates something such as, “I just ate a million slices of pizza.
Personification: Language which gives human-like traits to inanimate objects.

Lesson 2
Idiom: An expression that has figurative meaning when certain words are in it such as, “Piece of cake.”
There are thousands of Idioms in the U.S.
William Shakespeare created over 2,000 Idioms such as, “Fight fire with fire.”

Lesson 3
Symbolism: Using an object to stand in for an abstract idea.
Many novels, short stories, and novellas use symbolism.
Imagery: A descriptive language used to describe an image.

Lesson 4
Consonant: A letter that is not a vowel.
Alliteration: Two or more words near each other that have the same first consonant sound.
An example of Alliteration is, “He Happily Helped.”

Lesson 5
Word Style: How a writer uses words. You can think of this as a signature or the opening you use in chess.
Diction: Word choice.
Syntax: Sentence Structure.
Abstract: Concepts and ideas.
Concrete: The objects, and details.
Dialect: The certain way a character talks.

Chapter 14

Lesson 1
Precocious: Younger kids with a lot of intellect.
Rocky: An unwell relationship.
Will: A document that tells where a person’s possessions go when they die.

Lesson 2
Setting: A story’s time and place.
Most books have settings.
The setting helps us imagine what’s happening in the story.

Lesson 3
Book Analysis: To break down a story into story elements.
Conflict: A problem in a story.
Plot: The main part of the story.
Rising Action: The events that lead to the Climax.
Climax: The most exciting moment in the story.
Falling Action: When the action starts to go down, usually all the action in the story is done.
Resolution: Basically the book’s Conclusion.

Lesson 4
Theme: The moral of the story.
Most stories will have a theme, and not just action over and over again.

Lesson 5
Protagonist: The good characters in a story.
Antagonist: The bad characters in a story.
Character: A person in a story.

Lesson 6
Figurative Language: Language you need to figure out what it means.
Simile: when two or more, unlike objects, are compared with “Like,” or “As.”
Personification: To give an inanimate object humanlike traits.

Lesson 7
Quote: Something a person said, put in double quotes, for example: “, or single quotes, ‘.
You can quote a character in a story.
You can quote real things people said.