Vocabulary Explosion
like a star
What is stellar?
What is tone?
A comparison using like or as
What is simile?
14-year-old boy who was murdered for allegedly whistling to a white woman in Mississippi
Who is Emmett Till?
What university did Ms. Fagg attend?
What is FAMU?
shaped like a star
A comparison without using like or as
What is metaphor?
Giving human qualities to something that is nonhuman
What is personification?
Who is Rosa Parks?
What is Tallahassee?
shaped like a star coming out from the center in rays or points
What is stellate?
An exaggeration or over statement
What is hyperbole?
An extended comparison between two unlike things
What is analogy?
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
What is 11 months?
The 44th President
Who is Barack Obama?
shaped like a small star or covered with small stars
What is stellular?
The creative use of words to express their literal meaning
What is figurative language?
References to well-known stories, artworks, people, and so on
What is allusion?
In what year did it become legal for African Americans to sit anywhere they wanted to on the bus?
What is 1956?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
arbitrary configuration of star usually named after some animal, object, or mythological being
What is constellation?
A type of tone that expresses neither positive or negative feelings; only states facts
What is objective tone?
To transmit information or transport something
What is convey?
What does NAACP stand for?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
between or among the stars
What is interstellar?