Poetry
Benchmarks
Familiar Texts
Figurative Language
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100

When two words end with the same sound, it creates this.

What is a rhyme?

100

The time and place of a story is called this.

What is setting?

100

In Ghost, Ghost joins this sport team.

What is track team?

100

“Her voice was music to his ears” is this type of figurative language.

What is metaphor?

100

A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with this.

What is punctuation?

200

The shift about halfway through a sonnet.

What is a volta?

200

If a story is told using “I” and “me,” it is written in this point of view.

What is first person?

200

In The Giver, Jonas is selected to become this.

In The Giver, Jonas is selected to become this.

200

“Busy as a bee” is this type of comparison.

What is simile?

200

Headings, captions, and diagrams are examples of these.

What are text features?

300

The speaker’s attitude toward the subject is called this.

What is tone?

300

When you restate information in your own words, you are doing this.

What is paraphrasing?

300

In Ghost, Ghost’s real first name is this.

What is Castle?

300

“The river carved its way through the valley” contains this device.

What is personification?

300

The punctuation used to separate two independent clauses without a conjunction is this.

What is a semicolon?

400

A Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllable structure is called this.

What is a haiku?

400

The author's reason for writing something can be one of these three things, often remembered by a sweet acronym.

What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?

400

In George vs. George, the book presents BOTH sides of this conflict.

What is The American Revolution?

400

“He opened the door and announced, ‘Romeo has arrived.’” contains this figurative language device.

What is allusion?

400

FANBOYS is an acronym for this type of conjunction.
 

What is coordinating conjunction?

500

A Shakespearean sonnet contains this many lines.

14

500

Information that directly supports your answer is called this.

What is evidence?

500

The main character stepped on this animal in The Sound of Thunder to cause a catastrophic chain reaction OR this is the date repeated in There Will Come Soft Rains (1952)

What is a butterfly?

What is August 4th, 2026?

500

The phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” uses one object to represent an abstract idea; this is called this.

What is symbolism?

500

"Although the rain poured down” is this type of clause.

What is a dependent clause?

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