A figure of speech that compares to unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Another word for buyer
What is a consumer?
100
Add fuel to the Fire
What is "to make a bad situation worse"?
100
A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
What is fiction?
100
A person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice.
What is a doctor?
200
The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A form of advertisement often found in magazines and newspapers.
What is a print ad?
200
a great desire to eat sweet foods, especially with lots of sugar, such as candies and pastries
What is the figurative meaning of "sweet tooth"?
200
A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.
What is science fiction?
200
A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.
What is a chef?
300
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is a hyperbole?
300
Advertisement often displayed during Super Bowl intermissions/breaks.
What are commercials?
300
Needle in a haystack
What is "something hard or impossible"?
300
An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another (part of non-Fiction genre).
What is a biography?
300
One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
What is an architect?
400
Flowers danced about the lawn.
What is an example of personification?
400
The item being sold.
What is the product?
400
a shameful and shocking secret that people try to keep hidden
What is the figurative meaning of "skeleton in your closet"?
400
A factual or historical narrative; literature that is not based on fantasy.
What is non-fiction?
400
One whose profession is to give legal advice and assistance to clients and represent them in court or in other legal matters.
What is a lawyer?
500
I could feel the cold as if someone's icyhand was palm down on my back. (excerpt from Owl Moon)
What is an example of a metaphor?
500
The spreading of information in order to influence public opinion and to manipulate other people's beliefs.
What is propaganda?
500
not difficult; requiring practically no effort
What is the figurative meaning of "piece of cake" or "easy as pie"?
500
Owl moon
What is an example of realistic fiction?
500
One appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of people, such as an assembly or meeting.The chief executive of a republic.