A Word a Day
This former word of the day is defined as "extremely large; huge."
What is colossal?
This is the part of the plot that introduces the main characters and main setting of the story.
What is the exposition?
Identify the main conflict of "Tell Tale Heart."
What is the vulture eye?
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: Once conceived, the idea haunted me constantly.
What is personification?
This is the only part of speech that we can change the tense of.
What is a verb?
This current word of the day is a synonym of loaf and means to waste time.
What is procrastinate?
This is a specific type of third person where the reader only experiences the story through one character's point of view?
What is limited?
In the teacher made story "The Story of DR," DR was an athlete of this sport.
What is football?
This figurative language is defined as a commonly used phrase that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is an idiom?
When the subject of a sentence receives the action of the verb, the sentence is written in this voice.
What is passive voice?
This former word of the day is defined as "to live in permanently or continuously."
What is reside?
This literary element is all about expectations.. when what we expect to happen......... doesn't.
What is irony?
In "The Medicine Bag," Martin carried on the legacy of this family member.
Who is his grandfather? (Iron Shell)
This figurative language directly compares one thing to another.
What is a metaphor?
What is active voice?
This was our very first word of the day which is defined as " a problem or issue."
What is plight?
This literary element occurs when the issue/problem that the character is facing, is within (mind,heart, emotions.)
What is internal conflict?
Name the mysterious and somewhat dark author of "Tell-tale Heart" and the Raven.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
BAM! KAPOW! DING-DONG! WOOF-WOOF! BOOM!
What is onomatopoeia?
Sally got invited to Liza' birthday party. Identify the voice of this sentence.
What is passive voice?
Eeyore, is the epitome of this word of the day which means to be "depressed, or extremely unhappy."
What is forlorn?
When you see the phrase "The following movie is based on true events," the genre of that movie is this.
What is nonfiction narrative?
In the short story "The Night that the Ghost Got In," a police officer was shot in this area of the body.
Where is the shoulder/arm?
This figurative language gives extraordinary meaning to ordinary things. For example, an ordinary heart represents the extraordinary idea of love.
What is symbolism?
Wow! I just saved a ton of money by switching my insurance provider. Identify the part of speech of "Wow" in this sentence.
What is an interjection?