Fig Lang./Lit Device
"A large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails":, is an example of what type of figurative language?
IDION
"Now, here take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else's.."
Compassion
In Seventh Grade, what did the author mean by, "He scowled with great CONVICTION."
Strong belief or opinion
THE WISE OLD WOMAN
FOLKTAKE
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mad
"He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush..." is an example of what type of figurative language?
SIMILE
TRUST
" I therefore DECREE that anyone over seventy-one must be banished from the village...
To give an official order for something to be done
Thank you Ma'am
Short Story
Gary Soto
"War Cry" is an example of onomatopoeia. True or False
TRUE
"Mrs. Jones tells Roger she knows what it is like to want things you cannot afford. She seems to know what it is like to have a hard childhood..."
Understanding People/No Judgment
Nonconformity
not following normal rule or practices
doing your own thing
In the Year 1974
Personal Essay
Langston Hughes
Thank you Ma'am
Give an example of figurative language or imagery from the poem "Mad"
Mother looking like a pin dot/I flew to the moon
"After Roger fails to steal Mrs. Jones's purse, she makes him pick up the purse and asks him if he is ashamed."
Taking responsibility for your actions
"vague chills assailed me."
To trouble persistently or attack
Seventh Grade
Realistic Fiction
In the Year 1974
"I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert."
Symbol
"...the old people will be treated with the honor they deserve and share with us the wisdom of their years."
RESPECT
"Then I spotted the ELUSIVE straits that Magellan had discovered more than four hundred years earlier."
hard to find, focus on, or understand
difficult to remember or describe
Mad
Poem- Open Verse
Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl