Figurative Language
This is comparing two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
When something happens in the order in which it occurs or make sense. Derived from the name of the Greek Titan Chronos, the master of time.
What is Chronological
This story is about a mechanical teacher set in the year 2230 in which they reflect how things must have been different in the 1900's.
What is The Fun They Had?
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
A William Shakespeare drama about star crossed lovers who make the ultimate sacrifice to show their devotion.
What is Romeo And Juliet?
This is a word that sounds like the noise they are describing. (Boom, crash, bang, etc.)
What is an Onomatopoeia?
To show the differences of something. Seen in a Venn Diagram.
What is contrast?
This story is about Charlie Gordan, a man with intellectual disabilities that has a surgery to increase his intelligence in which he give tulips and daisies to his pet mouse.
What is Flowers for Algernon?
An action
What is a Verb?
A journal written by a young Jewish girl during the holocaust.
This means to exaggerate the details such as "I am so hungry I can eat a horse!"
What is hyperbole?
To show the similarities in something. Seen in a Venn Diagram.
What is compare?
This story is about a father who invents wings for himself and his son to escape a prison island.
What is Icarus and Daedalus?
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This book written by Mary Shelly details a scientist's desire to make the perfect human but he creates a monster instead.
What is Frankenstein?
This is the use of repeating starting sound like in "Phil fishes Fridays in February".
What is alliteration?
This word that begins with an "s" and means to guess or look for without evidence. It is often cited as being related to the word spectacles or spectate.
What is speculate?
This is a drama adapted from a journal about a little girl in Amsterdam during the Holocaust.
What is the Diary of Anne Frank or The Diary of a Young Girl.
Describes or modifies a verb or adjective.
What is an Adverb?
This epic poem is about the travels of a captain and his troops as they try to make it back to Ithica. It will be adapted into a film starring Matt Damon this summer.
What is The Odyssey?
This "j" word means to compare two different things side by side. Think the yin yang symbol. ☯
What is juxtaposition?
This means to be absent of feeling. It is closely related to empathy and sympathy because they share the same root wood but mean the opposite.
What is apathy?
This story was about a pouch passed down from generation to generation by Native Americans to symbolize their ability to heal and care for the world.
What is the Medicine Bag?
Combines two independent clauses.
What is a conjunction?
This novel is about a dystopian future where they don't teach the past and these memories of the past are "given" to a receiver so the society never forgets.
What is The Giver?