Fig Lang
What compares to unlike things using "like" or "as"?
A simile
What are the details pulled from the text that are used in an essay called?
Evidence
Who was the generous chocolatier who opened a school?
Milton Hershey
What is the process of creating a man made trench used to transport water called?
Irrigation
What is the force that naturally pulls objects back to Earth?
Gravity
What is giving human qualities to non-human things called?
Personification
What is the sentence in your essay that details what your entire essay is about?
Thesis
Who was the author of Bad Boy?
Walter Dean Myers
Mesopotamia is between what 2 rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates.
What is the only kind of bird that can fly backwards?
Hummingbird
What figurative language is this:
I am freezing in this classroom!
Hyperbole
After you provide evidence, what is the next step in your body paragraph?
Explanation and Elaboration
What was the name of the imaginary friend tiger in the comic strips?
Hobbes
What is the name of the fertile, mud-like substance that is deposited when rivers flood?
Silt
What is the biggest bird in the world?
Ostrich
What is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of a word called?
Alliteration
Name all 4 grading categories on the TN ELA RUBRIC
Focus and Organization, Development, Language, and Conventions.
What was Woodson's biggest flaw from Brown Girl Dreaming?
She was a pathological liar.
What region of the world does Mesopotamia reside?
The Middle-East
What NBA player has the most points scored over their entire career?
Lebron James (43,440)
What is a reference to a person, place, or thing that relies on the shared knowledge between the reader and writer called?
Allusion
When using a formal style and tone in an essay, what should you avoid using?
"I", slang words, and contractions.
Name 4 of the poems from Brown Girl Dreaming.
Ask Mr. Jenkins
What was the name of the world's first multi-nation ruler?
Sargon the Great
What is the actual name of Mr. Fantastic?
Reed Richards