Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
a person, place or thing
What is a noun?
Joe ran.
What is a sentence?
Punctuation mark used at the end of a declarative sentence
What is a period?
The name of the poem we read with lots of imagery
what is "the Fish"
A comparison stating it is something, using is or was
What is a metaphor?
an action
What is a verb?
In the fall.
What is a fragment?
Punctuation mark used in a question
What is a question mark?
The name of the matching game that we played with words and pictures
What is matching metaphors?
human characteristics to something non human
What is personification?
This describes a noun
What is an adjective?
What is a run on?
I am going to work. (first person, second person or third person)
What is first person?
The one that is a figure of speech: punctuation, verb tense or onomatopoeia
what is onomatopoeia?
two contradictory or opposite words together
What is an oxymoron?
Part of speech of the word in italics. He struggled to get his homework done last night.
what is a verb?
Joe standing in the puddle after the storm.
What is a fragment?
You do this at the beginning of a paragraph
What is indent?
We memorized these to study alliteration
what are tongue twisters?
An exaggeration in writing
What is a hyperbole?
Part of speech of the word in italics. Some people said that Joe was on the struggle bus.
what is an adjective?
Mrs. Park sat on the trunk in the woods.
What is a sentence?
The sentence that goes at the end of the first paragraph in an essay
What is the thesis statement?
The point of view we wrote from in our personification papers
what is an inanimate object?