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OAT Terms- Jados #5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| author's purpose (be able to apply this word) | The specific reason a person has for writing (inform, to entertain, to express feelings, or opinion) |
| Informational | giving knowledge or facts |
| fictional | not true; made up |
| non-fiction | true; writing that deals with real people, events, and places |
| main idea (be able to apply this word) | the most important idea expressed in a piece of writing |
| metaphor (be able to apply this word) | A comparison between how unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing (Ex. He's such a bear today!) |
| personification (be able to apply this word) | A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| idiom (be able to apply this word) | An idiom is a group of words that together mean something beyond the definitions of the individual words (Ex. It's raining cats and dogs) |
| Simile (be able to apply this word) | a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, or resembles |
| mood (be able to apply this word) | the overall emotion of a piece |
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