When you are not sure about an answer but you see that there are answers that are wrong you should do this with the ones you know are wrong.
What is eliminating the answer you know are wrong?
100
100% Chance is an example of an ______________.
What is an oxymoron?
100
Bang!
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
As agile as a monkey. This is an example of a ___________.
What is simile?
100
When you give non-humans human-like characteristics this is called ___________.
What is personification?
200
When there is a word that you don't know being used you should look at these in order to make an educated guess on what the word means.
What is context clues?
200
Bull in a China shop is an example of an _________.
What is an idiom?
200
Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
What is an alliteration?
200
When he ate, he was a crocodile, opening wide and snapping his jaws suddenly for the kill. This is an example of a __________.
What is a metaphor?
200
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground. This is an example of ___________ which appeals to your sense of sight.
What is imagery?
300
When reading a question and the possible answers you should make sure to do this _____________.
What is carefully?
300
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
300
I lie down by the side of my new bride.
What is assonance?
300
School is _______ prison for some students.
What is the word like?
300
___________ is the author's attitude about his/her subject.
What is tone?
400
If you get stuck on a hard question you should...
What is skip it and go back to it later?
400
I have a million things to do. This is an example of ____________.
What is a hyperbole?
400
Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.
What is an alliteration?
400
When I go grocery shopping I get _____ hungry _____ a beast.
What is the word as?
400
Foreshadowing gives a ________ of a future event.
What is hint or warning?
500
These are some key words to look out for when reading questions because they could potentially give away the answer.
What is sometimes, always, hardly and never?
500
How long has it been raining? It feels like its been raining for 40 days and 40 nights. The speaker is using an ______________ to describe large amount of rain they have been getting.
What is an allusion?
500
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
What is assonance?
500
The dog's hair was a fierce lion's mane, never washed, sticking out in wild directions and smelling like last week's garbage.
This sentence contains the literary device(s) _____________.
What is metaphor and simile?
500
____________language uses the true meaning of the word versus __________________language uses much more than the literal meaning.