Figurative Language
Compared to similes, these are implicit comparisons because they don't use "as" or "like".
What are metaphors
What is 100% of N
What is N
Delaware
What is Dover
A negative plus a negative
What is negative
The word that indicates action or a state of being
What is a verb
A phrase in which the meaning of the whole cannot be derived form the meaning of the parts
What is an idiom
If a car traveled 171 miles in three hours, what is its rate of speed?
What is 57 mph
Kentucky
What is Frankfort
Positive divided by a negative
What is a negative
The part of speech that that describes the action
What is an adverb
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words are put side by side
(Unbiased opinion)
What is an oxymoron
What is 55% of 20?
What is 11
Home of the US Naval Academy
in Maryland
What is Annapolis
What is the product when you have (a negative )6
What is positive
!!!!!!
What are exclamation marks
A humorous play on words that exploits the different meaning of words
"Make like a tree and leave"
What is a pun
A jacket that cost $68 is being sold with a 30% discount. What is the price of the jacket?
What is $47.60
Reno and Las Vegas are cities that this state is known for, however the are not its capital. Name the state and Capital.
what is Carson City, Nevada
14 - (8 * -3)
What is 38
;
What is a semicolon
The wind's howling kept me from going to sleep.
What is personification
A company buys a shirt for $14 and marks it up 90%. It later discounts the shirt25%. How much profit did the company earn?
What is $5.95
The Civil War began in this state's largest city at the time.
What is South Carolina
State the rule for adding integers with unlike signs
What is: when adding integers with unlike signs, subtract their values and take the sign of the integer with the greatest absolute value
The part of speech responsible for connecting words, phrases and clauses
What are conjunctions