Figurative Language
This figure of speech compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as," such as saying someone is "brave as a lion".
What is a simile?
This punctuation mark is used to link two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, without using a coordinating conjunction like "and" or "but."
What is a semicolon?
This word means to discuss what two things have in common (spell the word).
What is compare?
The profession of the main character of The Alchemist.
What is a shepard?
The past tense of the word "go."
What is went?
Giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to non-human objects or abstract ideas—like saying the "wind whispered through the trees"—is called this.
What is personification?
When a modifier is placed incorrectly in a sentence so that it appears to describe the wrong word—such as "Walking down the street, the trees looked beautiful"—it is known as this type of modifier.
What is a dangling modifier or a misplaced modifier?
This word means to move two things apart from each other (spell the word).
What is separate?
He is the main character of The Alchemist.
Who is Santiago?
Spell the word that means "something that is see-through" and starts with "t."
What is transparent?
This literary device combines two contradictory terms right next to each other, such as "deafening silence" or "jumbo shrimp."
What is an oxymoron?
This rule states that items in a list or series must use the same grammatical form, which is broken in the sentence: "She likes swimming, hiking, and to ride bikes."
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
This word means the opposite of synonym. (spell the word).
What is antonym?
The setting at the opening of The Alchemist.
Wht is Andalusia?
A figure of speech where a word phonetically mimics or sounds like its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
An indirect reference to a well-known person, historical event, literary work, or myth (such as calling a treacherous place a "Pandora's box") is known by this term.
What is an allusion?
This grammatical error occurs when the subject and the verb do not match in number, such as saying "The group of students are going on a field trip."
What is subject - verb agreement error?
This word starts with "a" and means to increase in speed. (spell the word).
What is accelerate?
This is the name of the old man in the plaza.
What is Melchidezik?
This is the punctuation that goes before the word "and" in a list of items.
What is an Oxford comma?
This figure of speech substitutes the name of an attribute or an associated concept for the thing itself, such as using "the track" to mean horse racing or "the crown" to represent a monarch.
These punctuation marks are used to set off nonessential information or parenthetical asides within a sentence, providing a sharper, more dramatic break in thought than commas.
What are em dashes?
This word means something that causes cancer (spell the word).
What is carcinogen?
This is where the old man says the treasure is.
What is at the pyramids in Egypt?
The name of the two stones the old man gives to Santiago in The Alchemist.
What are Urim and Thummim.