What two things are being compared?
The book was like an African safari, filled with excitement and adventure.
What is book and safari?
100
A metaphor is a comparison of _____ unlike things that does not use the words LIKE or AS.
What is TWO?
100
Snap, crackle, pop...
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Give one example of an onomatopoeia....
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
100
Define alliteration.
What is repeating the beginning sound two or more times.
200
A simile is a comparison of ______ ______ things.
What is two unlike?
200
What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
The book was an immediate flight to Paris, France.
What is BOOK and FLIGHT?
200
The small snail slowly crawled across the sand box.
What is alliteration?
200
Give an example of alliteration.
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
200
Tell me four types of figurative language.
What is simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, or imagery?
300
Complete this simile:
The field trip was...
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE...
300
A metaphor must compare two ______ things.
What is UNLIKE?
300
I have told you a million times not to lie.
What is a hyperbole?
300
Give an example of a simile.
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
300
The FOG comes / on little cat feet. // It sits looking / over harbor and city / on silent haunches / and then moves on." (Carl Sandburg)
How many examples of figurative language are found in this short poem?
What is two: a metaphor and personification?
400
What two things are being compared?
The trampoline, my own personal backyard retreat, is a lot of fun.
What is TRAMPOLINE and RETREAT?
400
Her brain is a fact-filled encylopedia.
What is BRAIN and encyclopedia?
400
Her life passed her by.
What is personification?
400
Give an example of a metaphor.
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
400
THE sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him
What is personification: the clouds are mean, snow debates if it will go, a narrow wind complains...
500
For a statement to be a simile, there are two requirements. What are they?
What is it mus compare 2 unlike things AND it must use the words LIKE or AS?
500
For a statement to be a metaphor, two things must be found. What are these?
What is it must compare two unlike things? It must say that one thing is something else - no LIKE or AS.
500
Define imagery.
What is uses words to paint a picture AND give the reader an emotional connection?
500
Give an example of personification.
What is MANY ANSWERS POSSIBLE.
500
A unique way of saying something that spices up one's writing and makes it interesting is: