Figurative Language
"He was as brave as a lion" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a simile?
This is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A poem that must be about love
What is a sonnet?
The name of Mr. Keen's Dog
Who is Mr. Clancy
A group of words that expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a predicate.
What is a sentence?
"Time is a thief" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The number of keys on a piano
What is 88
The author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
The best character in The Outsiders
Who is Dallas Winston
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
"The sun smiled down on us" is an example of this.
What is personification?
The 7th President of the USA
Who is Andrew Jackson
The total number of syllables in a haiku
What is fourteen
Mr. Keen's favorite color
What is green
A brief statement that expresses the main points or arguments of a piece of writing.
What is a thesis statement?
"He was a real Romeo with the ladies" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The poet's attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter.
What is tone
Where Mr. Keen was born
What is Germany
This term refers to the main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist?
"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
The most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
A set of two lines that rhyme. Always seen at the end of a couplet.
What is a couplet
Mr. Keen's favorite author
Who is Roald Dahl
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?