Figurative Language Fun
This is the type of figurative language in the following sentence:
Luke leaned toward the light coming through the vents.
What is alliteration?
This word means decorated with studs
What is studded?
This is Ms. Soper's favorite color.
What is green?
This is what Luke sees in the window of the Sports Family house.
This is the meaning of the following idiom:
All ears
What is listening intently?
This is the type of figurative language in the following sentence:
It is the east and Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
This word means a know it all person.
What is alecky?
This is the author of Among the Hidden.
Who is Margaret Peterson Haddix?
These are the three names Luke gives the families in the new neighborhood.
Double Jeopardy
What are the Sports Family, the Gold Family, and the Birdbrain family?
This is the meaning of the following idiom:
Fish out of water
What is feeling out of place?
This is the type of figurative language in the following sentence AND the two things being compared:
The cafe was like a battleship ready for action.
What is a simile?
What is a cafe and battleship?
This is the part of a roof that overhangs the wall.
What are eaves?
This is the name for a group of crows.
What is a murder?
This is the reason the Government raised taxes.
What is the new houses?
This is the meaning of the following idiom:
Add insult to injury
What is something that makes a bad situation worse?
This is the definition of personification AND an example.
A type of figurative language that gives human traits to nonhuman things
This is the technical equipment needed for a particular activity.
What is zeal?
This is what a person who studies the weather is called.
What is a meteorologist?
This is a reason OTHER than anger that Luke's father may have reacted in the manner he did upon finding Luke in the kitchen.
What is fear or love?
This is the meaning of the following idiom:
Get out of hand
What is become chaotic or out of control?
This is the definition of a simile, a metaphor, and a hyperbole AS WELL AS an example of each.
This word means with enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause.
What is zeal?
This is the meaning of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
What is a fear of long words?
Compare Luke's feelings about having to hide at the beginning of the story compared to the last chapter we read.
What is disappointed or sad at the beginning and angry at the last chapter?
This is the meaning of the following idiom:
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
What is don't depend on something before it happens?