Figurative Language
This compares two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Choose the correct sentence:
A) Their going to the game tonight.
B) They’re going to the game tonight.
What is B?
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
The message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
This nonfiction book by Michael Pollan examines where our food comes from and how modern food production affects our health and the environment.
What is The Omnivore's Dilemma?
“Time is a thief.” This is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
This type of word describes a verb, an adjective, or another word to show how, when, where, or to what extent something happens.
What is an adverb?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
Clues in the text that hint at future events.
What is foreshadowing?
In this novel by J.K. Rowling, a young boy discovers he is a wizard and attends a magical school called Hogwarts.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
A sentence error that occurs when two complete sentences are joined incorrectly without proper punctuation or a connecting word.
What is a run-on sentence?
This is the most exciting or intense part of a story, where the main conflict reaches its peak and the outcome starts to become clear.
What is the climax?
Using evidence from the text to make a logical guess.
What is inference?
In this novel by Suzanne Collins, a teenage girl volunteers to take her sister’s place in a deadly televised competition.
What is The Hunger Games?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The type of sentence that has one main clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
The time, place, and social environment of a story, which can influence characters’ decisions and the plot’s events.
What is setting?
Another word for the mood of the text that shows how the author feels about the topic.
What is tone?
This tragedy by William Shakespeare tells the story of two young lovers whose secret marriage and family feud lead to their tragic deaths in Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Repeating beginning consonant sounds in words close together.
What is alliteration?
This punctuation mark is used to join two complete sentences without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
The person or character who tells the story, shaping what the reader knows and experiences.
What is the narrator?
The perspective from which a story is told, which determines what the reader knows, experiences, and understands about the characters and events.
What is point of view?
In this novel by Rick Riordan, a prophecy involving a child of the “Big Three” gods drives a dangerous quest across the United States, with encounters with gods, monsters, and the Underworld while trying to prevent a war among Olympus.
What is The Lightning Thief?